Poisoning the well - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia a special case of #ArgumentumAdHominem, &neo 2015-08-24 19:54:24 |
#PoisoningTheWell Poisoning the well (or attempting to poison the well) is a #rhetorical #device where adverse information about a target is preemptively presented to an audience, with the intention of #discrediting or #ridiculing everything that the target person is about to say &neo 2015-08-24 19:53:45 |