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.
It is only a fallacy to claim that an argument is wrong because of a negative attribute of someone making the argument. (i.e. âJohn is a jerk.â is not a fallacy. âJohn is wrong because he is a jerk.â is a logical fallacy.) The term âpoisoning the wellâ also refers to a form of ad hominem fallacy.