Chapter 2: Appeals to Emotion

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• Argumentum Ad Baculum

• Appeal to fear

• Argumentum Ad Populum

• Mob Appeal

Arguments that distract by making the audience feel sorry for the speaker or someone on behalf of whom the speaker is arguing.

• Argumentum Ad Misericordiam

• Appeal to Sympathy

• Argumentum Ad Baculum

• Appeal to Pity

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• Chronological Snobbery

• Appeal to Novelty

• Mob Appeal

• Appeal to Pity

This argument appeals to the emotions of a crowd, the desire to be part of the majority or the interests of the "common man."

• Appeal to Pity

• Appeal to Fear

• Appeal to sadness

• Mob Appeal

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• Mob Appeal

• Appeal to Fear

• Snob Appeal

• Argumentum Ah Populum

Government official: If we don't get more funding for this program, there will be more jobless people out on the streets. I urge the legislature to vote to increase funding for this program as soon as possible

• Argumentum Ad Misericordiam

• Appeal to Pity

• Argumentum

  Ad Populum

• Argumentum Ad Baculum

• Appeal to Sorry

Arguments that distract by attempting to shame the listener into agreement by citing an illegitimate authority

• Snob Appeal

• Mob Appeal

• Argumentum Ad Vercundiam

• Appeal to Illegitimate Authority

• Argumentum Ad Populum

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• Fallacies of rushing

• Argumentum Ad Populum

• Mob Appeal

• Snob Appeal

• Chronological Snobbery

Arguments that distract by making the audience want to either be part of an old tradition or part of the latest cool, new thing. In other words, this fallacy distracts by rejecting or accepting something merely on the basis of its age, making an appeal to tradition or novelty.

• Snob Appeal

• Appeal to Tradition

• Mob Appeal

• Appeal to Novelty

• Chronological Snobbery

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• Argumentum Ad Baculum

• Argumentum Ad Verecundiam

• Mob Appeal

• Snob Appeal

• Appeal to Illegitimate Authority