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 ad hominem argument in the second sense is a legitimate demonstration of an opponent's inconsistency. This is a much rarer use of the term. An argument is ad hominem in this second sense if it involves turning the argument back on the opponent (sometimes known as the 'you too', or 'tu quoque', move).