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.
Bandwagon Fallacy or Ad Populum. Much like the appeal to authority, the ad populum fallacy appeals to popularity. The premise is that an idea is popular therefore, it is correct. Even though many of us were warned in our youth not to follow the crowd, it is undoubtedly the driving force in many adult lives.