Lawsuit of intention

The lawsuit of intention is a Sophisme consisting in condemning the acts of a person by lending unavowable and condemnable intentions to him. The invalid character of this reasoning comes owing to the fact that the intentions are not proven, even unverifiable. They thus constitute a insufficient Prémisse.

Examples

This student is lazy, because he likes to work in team, not to learn more, but to work the least possible.

It would be necessary to prohibit the public gifts at humanitarian associations, because it is a spectacle of hypocrisy: the givers only seek to give each other a generous image.

See too

Sophisms
sophism " Argumentum AD hominem "

References

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