Know Your Fallacies Ad Hominem: Latin for "to the man." The attempt to discredit an opponent by attacking the person instead of the argument. What would you know about labor laws? You don't even have a job. Faulty Cause: Substituting association for causation. Many women claim to be pacifists, but before women got the vote, there were no nuclear weapons. False dilemma: Presenting only two possible alternatives to a complex situation, whe in fact there are many more...