Tu quoque
Saturday, August 25th, 2007I hope to begin a series of posts on here on the logical fallacies. Not being an expert on logic at all, I figured one of the best ways to learn about the logical fallacies is to gradually feature a few of them on this page.
Let’s begin with tu quoque. It means when responding with an irrelevant counter-argument in the face of an argument or accusation.
This fallacy was drawn to my attention by the following page on Bill Muehlenberg’s excellent website:
http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2007/08/23/a-review-of-religion-of-peace-by-robert-spencer/
(When you load the page, you’ll need to do a search for “tu quoque” by pressing CTRL-F and typing “tu quoque” [enter for IE] in the box.)
For more information, see the wikipedia article.
