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Tu quoque, literally "you, too", is a rhetorical technique that intends to discredit the opponent's argument by attacking the opponent's own personal behaviour and actions as being inconsistent with their argument, so that the opponent appears hypocritical. This specious reasoning is a special type of ad hominem attack. The Oxford English Dictionary cites John Cooke's 1614 stage play The Cittie Gallant as the earliest known use of the term in the English language.
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red herring
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irrelevant conclusion
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anecdotal evidence
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association fallacy
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not invented here
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Two wrongs make a right
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the pot calling the kettle black
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Soviet Union
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Benito Mussolini
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rhetoric
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hypocrisy
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argument
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fallacy
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