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.
A. An attack on someoneâs character instead of the arguments. B. A device to divert attention away from the true object. C. A false dichotomy to oversimplify a situation. Answer: B is the correct definition of red herring. A is the definition of an ad hominem attack and C is the definition of an either-or fallacy.