Which of the following employs an ad hominem fallacy?

a. the people who do not support the new library building must be uneducated and stupid.

b. the old library building is falling apart because it is in such disrepair

a. the people who do not support the new library building must be uneducated and stupid.

Explanation: "Ad hominem" means "against the man" and when used in a discussion, it means to attack a person, or a group of persons, to shoot down their argument instead of using a logic argument. In the given sentences the one that uses "Ad hominem" is option a, because it attacks the people who do not support the new library building, by saying they are "uneducated and stupid" instead of giving a logical argument to why the new library should be built.

- "a nonrestrictive clause functions as a modifier to a noun (that is an object, person or concept). these clauses can be described by the following three options: it is set off by comas, it contains a subject and a verbs and it adds nonessential information to the sentence.

for example, in "here is bill gates, who confounded microsoft software company" we can identify "who confounded microsoft software company" as a nonrestrictive clause modifying the noun bill gates. this clause can be describes as a nonrestrictive clause because it is separated by a comma, it adds nonessential information to identify who bill gates is and it must contain both a subject (who) and a verb (confounded)."

showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others. (so basically being heartless)

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