Link Harvest: The Ad Hominem Fallacy Fallacy

[osewalrus]

Man, I can't believe it took me until now to find this. The misuse of the phrase ad hominem always annoys me.
https://laurencetennant.com/bonds/adhominem.html

Now i need to find one that explains the difference between "gaslighting" and "disagreeing." Gaslighting is fast on its way to become the most over used dismissal of any argument where one side is certain.

Comments

[gorgeousgary]

The easiest thing may be to go right to the movie that inspired the term.

If I understand things correctly, to be gaslighting the person on one side has to insist that something the person on the other side actually witnessed/experienced/has evidence occurred didn't happen.

[osewalrus]

More to the point, it has to be deliberate lying.

So "last week it rained," "no it didn't" because the other person doesn't remember is not gaslighting, it's a disagreement. But I'm increasingly seeing this kind of thing called gaslighting even when it's just a memory disagreement.

[cellio]

That is excellent. Thank you for sharing.

[vettecat]

Great article, thanks for sharing!

[mneme]

Ah, I remember it well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtZ8fNfGRwA