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Dr. Jay
VerLinden
Communication
Department
College of Arts, Humanities
and Social Sciences
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Argumentation and Critical Thinking Tutorial

FALLACY DEFINITIONS
GROUP 6: REFUTATION BASED FALLACIES
TEST #5

A CORRECT ANSWER IS

Describe the fallacy of appeal to emotion.

The fallacy of appeal to emotion involves trying to gain agreement to a claim based only on arousing feelings about the subject. The appeal can be to any emotion, such as pity, spite, indignation, etc.

An example would be someone who wants to get legislation passed and only tells stories designed to make listeners angry, without addressing how significant the problem is, what the legislation would involve, or how well the legislation would solve the problem.

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