Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

I'm your host, Catholic Answers Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

And on the Council of Trend, I want to encourage anybody, whether they're Catholic or non-Catholic,

to reason well.

Just a reason well.

We all want to come together.

Isaiah chapter 1, it says, come, let us reason together.

But in order to reason together, we have to reason well.

And so we have to avoid fallacies or errors in reasoning.

So I'm hoping over the next few weeks, I might cover different fallacies or errors in

reasoning that pop up in conversations with one another.

And I'm going to focus on the fallacies that people misunderstand the most.

Because there are a lot of people who will say, oh, I'm aware of fallacies, I want a reason

well.

And they'll try to call out other people and say, hey, you're making this fallacy or you're

making that fallacy, but they're actually mistaken that that's not actually the fallacy

that you're looking for.

These aren't the droids, the fallacies that you're looking for.

So in reasoning, well, we want to understand fallacies and then understand when they occur

and when we only think they occur.

So today, we're going to talk about the ad hominem fallacy or against the man.

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