An appeal to pity (also called argumentum ad misericordiam) is a fallacy in which someone improperly appeals to pity or similar feelings like empathy...

including appeal to consequences, appeal to fear, appeal to flattery, appeal to pity, appeal to ridicule, appeal to spite, and wishful thinking. Appeal to emotion...

praise to obtain common agreement. Appeal to pity (argumentum ad misericordiam) – generating feelings of sympathy or mercy in the listener to obtain common...

sentiment. The author suggests ways in which to appeal to the pity of the audience: "We shall stir pity in our hearers by recalling vicissitudes of future;...

argumentum ad verecundiam (appeal to shamefacedness/modesty) because it appeals to the fear of humiliation by appearing disrespectful to a particular authority...

Appeal to tradition (also known as argumentum ad antiquitatem or argumentum ad antiquitam, appeal to antiquity, or appeal to common practice) is a claim...

"How to build support for war". Columbia Journalism Review. Archived from the original on April 20, 2008. Walton, Douglas (1995). "Appeal to pity: A case...

Other names for the fallacy include: appeal to (common) belief appeal to popularity appeal to the majority appeal to the masses argument from consensus...

Appeal to consequences, also known as argumentum ad consequentiam (Latin for "argument to the consequence"), is an argument that concludes a hypothesis...

sense, it refers to children's rights (as in discussions of child labor). In debate, it is a plea for pity that is used as an appeal to emotion, and therefore...

is the repetition of words for emphasis or an appeal to pity. Synonymy or Interpretation is similar to reduplication, only instead of repeating the same...

An appeal to probability (or appeal to possibility, also known as possibiliter ergo probabiliter, "possibly, therefore probably") is the logical fallacy...

Appeal to motive Appeal to nature Appeal to novelty Appeal to pity Appeal to probability Appeal to ridicule Appeal to spite Appeal to tradition Appellation...

tradename infringement. Academic Games Leagues of America was founded in 1991 to encourage the use of Academic Games as an educational tool and as a scholar...

An appeal to nature is a rhetorical technique for presenting and proposing the argument that "a thing is good because it is 'natural', or bad because...

The appeal to novelty (also called appeal to modernity or argumentum ad novitatem) is a logical fallacy in which one prematurely claims that an idea or...

"Isn't It a Pity" is a song by English rock musician George Harrison from his 1970 solo album All Things Must Pass. It appears in two variations there:...

Linguistics portal United States portal Politics portal Appeal to consequences Appeal to fear Appeal to pity Black and white thinking Cut and run False dilemma...

Appeal to accomplishment is a logical fallacy wherein Person A challenges a thesis put forward by Person B because Person B has not accomplished similar...

Appeal to flattery is a fallacy in which a person uses flattery, excessive compliments, in an attempt to appeal to their audience's vanity to win support...

an idea by attempting to increase fear towards an alternative. An appeal to fear is related to the broader strategy of fear appeal and is a common tactic...

Clarity In other uses: Sob Story, a 2007 novel by Carol Anne Davis Appeal to pity "Sobb Story", a 1991 song by Leaders of the New School This disambiguation...

ignorantiam), or appeal to ignorance, is an informal fallacy where something is claimed to be true or false because of a lack of evidence to the contrary...

Michael J. Callahan, the general counsel. Walton, Douglas (1995). "Appeal to pity: A case study of theargumentum ad misericordiam" (PDF). Argumentation...

Toronto Press, 1998. Appeal to Expert Opinion: Arguments from Authority, University Park, Pa., Penn State Press, 1997. Appeal to Pity: Argumentum ad Misericordiam...

Appeal to ridicule (also called appeal to mockery, ad absurdo, or the horse laugh) is an informal fallacy which presents an opponent's argument as absurd...

Appeal to the stone, also known as argumentum ad lapidem, is a logical fallacy that dismisses an argument as untrue or absurd. The dismissal is made by...

Award for New Star of the Year – Actress for Town Without Pity in 1961, the first German to be so honoured. Kaufmann was born in Lengdorf, Styria, Austria...

Appeal to motive is a pattern of argument which consists in challenging a thesis by calling into question the motives of its proposer. It can be considered...

attempt to win favor by exploiting the audience's preexisting spite or disdain for something else, it is called guilt by association or an appeal to spite...