Latin Translations
To the stick.
What is ad baculum?
Rejecting or affirming a position because of its age.
What is chronological snobbery?
Sign this, or you're out.
What is ad baculum?
Dad: Son, when you grow up, I want you always to be a responsible young man
Son: But, Dad, I am already very responsible. Whenever something breaks around here, it seems like I am always responsible.
What is equivocation?
The only good poems are short poems that rhyme because longer poems and poems that do not rhyme aren't any good.
What is circular reasoning?
To the man.
What is ad hominem?
Secretly assuming what you are trying to prove.
What is circular reasoning?
I know everybody thinks Einstein's theory of relativity is correct, but I can't accept it. Einstein didn't comb his hair.
What is ad hominem?
Team America was selected from all the best players in the United States. Since they are all the best at their positions, this team is going to win.
What is composition/part-to-whole?
Advertisement: So, when are you going to make the new Ford Bubblebox your first car?
What is complex/loaded question?
You also.
What is tu quoque?
A misunderstanding due to the grammar of the sentence.
What is amphiboly?
You: I'm having trouble playing my violin here. Do you have any suggestions?
Mechanic: Maybe if you blow in the other end instead?
What is ipse dixit/faulty appeal to authority?
Teacher: The study of logic is valuable.
Student: Oh, so it's the study of logic that is valuable? That must mean that the practice of logic is a waste of time.
What is fallacy of accent?
I took my car to that repair service once, and the guy overcharged me without fixing the problem. Apparently, they never provide good service.
What is apriorism/hasty generalization?
He said it himself.
What is ipse dixit?
Assuming what is true of the whole is true of the part.
Every developed nation in the world has strict controls on firearms except America.
What is ad populum/appeal to the people?
Businessman: I don't think I can go wrong to invest in the Pffizt-Hickup Amalgamated Tweezers Factory. Everybody knows the whole economy is booming.
What is divison/whole-to-part?
A college degree either helps you get a high-paying job, or it is not worth your time and expense.
What is either/or/bifurcation?
After this, therefore because of this.
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc?
An appeal to a lack of information; arguing from silence.
I hear all these environmentalists talking about how we should save the environment and all that. It seems kind of ridiculous to me. These same people use plastic bags, have houses made of wood, and drive gas-guzzling cars. I think they're ridiculous.
What is tu quoque?
Somewhere is the United States a woman gives birth every eight seconds. That woman must be found and stopped!
What is amphiboly?
Every year the earth's population grows, and so does the overall temperature of the earth. Clearly global warming is caused by increasing numbers of people.
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc?