When you offer arguments applying the tests of proof, source credibility, and sound reasoning to demonstrate the deficiencies in another person's arguments, you are committing the fallacy of employing ad hominem arguments.

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Employing the tests of proof, source credibility, and sound reasoning to demonstrate the deficiencies in another person's arguments is not a fallacy of ad hominem. Ad hominem fallacy occurs when one attacks the person presenting the argument rather than the argument itself.

When You Offer Arguments Applying the Tests of Proof, Source