This term has been thrown around a lot lately, so I thought I would provide my definition for the notion (with some examples). Wikipedia defines it like this: Ad hominem reasoning is normally described as a logical fallacy, more precisely an informal fallacy and an irrelevance. My view of this fallacy reduces this issue to three interconnected points. 1: Ad Hominem is a way of reasoning. This means, ultimately, that an argument or a discussion involving some kind of reasoning process has to be t