Meaning: The merging of adjacent sounds or syllables or words. Classified under: Nouns denoting natural processes. Hypernyms (fusion is a kind of...): linguistic process (a process involved in human language) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of fusion): syncretism (the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections))
Description of Circumstantial Ad Hominem. A Circumstantial ad Hominem is a fallacy in which one attempts to attack a claim by asserting that the person making the claim is making it simply out of self interest.
ad hominem. 1. appealing to one's prejudices, emotions, or special interests rather than to one's intellect or reason. 2. attacking an opponent's character rather than answering his argument. Compare ad feminam. Origin of ad hominem.