Category: Appeal to Emotion
¨Appeal to Emotion¨ is a subset of informal, relevance and red herring fallacies, that is deployed to win an argument based on emotions at the absense of factual evidence.
Appeal to Sympathy
Appeal to Spite
Appeal to Pity
Appeal to Flattery
Appeal to Fear
Appeal To Emotion
A fallacy called an appeal to emotion occurs when an argument replaces evidence with emotions. More precisely, the speaker tries to prove his point by playing with the audience’s emotions instead of presenting proof. “Emotions” is a broad term, it’s reasonable for this fallacy to have its subcategories. Example 1: “You want an abortion? Imagine…
Appeal to Belief
Appeal to Ridicule
Yet another red herring fallacy, the appeal to ridicule shifts the argument by using mockery. It occurs when the speaker tries to disprove the argument by making it sound like a joke. Its Latin name is reductio ad ridiculum, some call it an appeal to mockery as well. This type of argument is not used…