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.
An argument ad hominem (or argumentum ad hominem, to use the full New Latin phrase) was a valid method of persuasion by which a person took advantage of his or her opponent's interests or feelings in a debate, instead of just sticking to general principles.