Appeal to Emotions Logical Fallacy

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Appeal to emotions, argumentsum ad passiones, for the children is the attempt to convince someone by exciting their emotions rather than producing a rational argument.

This fallacy is one of the most frequent members together with Argumentum Ad Hominem of Red Herring Fallacies group.

We tried to get together all kinds of this fallacy with their examples, enjoy

CONTENTS

• Definition
• Appeal to Fear or Consequences
• Appeal to Guilt
• Appeal to Ridicule
• Appeal to Anger
• Appeal to Spite
• Appeal to Disgust
• Appeal to Flattery
• Appeal to Pity
• Appeal to Patriotism
• Pooh-pooh
• Wishful thinking
• Playing the Nazi card