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What you described is called "ad hominem" fallacy.

• Traster 6y ago
  It's absolutely not, I know nothing about the guy on WSB, it's not an attack against him to simply say that the average person on the internet claiming something extremely unlikely is just most likely lying.
  • cromka 6y ago
    What I was referring to is this: "I tell you my card is 7 of spades but I have a history of lying. Most likely, the card isn't the 7 of spades. But that doesn't mean it's likely that the card is the 9 of diamonds." I suggested that such reasoning could, in a nutshell, be summarized as "ad hominem".