HELPFUL INFO----- Appeal to Pity Brings up sad things Intends to evoke pity Moti

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Appeal to Pity

Brings up sad things

Intends to evoke pity

Motivates psychologically to accept a conclusion

The sad things are irrelevant to the conclusion

Appeal to Fear (including force)

Brings up scary things

Intends to evoke fear

Motivates psychologically to accept a conclusion

The scary things are irrelevant to the conclusion

Appeal to the People

Encourages audience to accept what others believe

Uses peer pressure to influence

Inclusivist peer pressure or

Exclusivist peer pressure

Not claimed that the peer group has any special expertise

Ad Hominem*

Responding to another, opposing argument, or testimony

Brings up negatives or perceived negatives about the opponent, commonly one of the following:

Abusive (negative character traits)

Circumstantial (motives to argue for the conclusion, predispositions to argue for the conclusion)

Tu Quoque (hypocrisy on behalf of the opponent)

NOT a case of legitimately undermining testimony

Straw Man*

Responds to another, opposing, argument or claim

Misrepresents the opposing view, and then pretends to defeat that view.

May be relevant to, even defeat, some similar sounding, or related, possibly more general, view.

Accident

Appeals to a general rule or principle

The rule or principle is not absolute (There are exceptions.)

Applied to an exceptional case

Arguer acts as if either (a) the rule is absolute or (b) the case is typical.

Red Herring

Premises are not logically relevant to the conclusion

It is NOT one of the other fallacies of relevance

The psychological impetus for accepting the conclusion is distraction, often by a similar sounding, or related, possibly more general, conclusion.

Sometimes this fallacy is said to occur when one gives arguments about a subject that is irrelevant to the established discussion, whether those arguments themselves are fallacious or not.

QUESTION 4 A Dupetrick Fur coat is not for everyone, only those with the finest laste and style can wear one. Come in to Dupetrick Furs and we will help you decide if you are good enough to own one O Appeal to Pity O Appeal to Fear (including force) OAppeal to the People O Ad Hominem Strawman O Red Herring O No Fallacy QUESTION 5 Members of the jury, surely you will not find the defendant Carlos guilty of burglary. Carlos is a visitor from our neighbor to the south, where he has eight young brothers and sisters. Those poor kids and their impoverished mother live a desperate hand to mouth existence, and Carlos was only hoping to send a few more dollars home to ease their suffering. Based on these facts, we surely must conclude that he did not commit the crime O Appeal to Pity Appeal to Fear (including force) Appeal to the People O Ad Hominem O Strawman O Red Herring No Fallacy QUESTION 6 The military in Congo has a policy of invading villages and forcing boys age 12-14 to rape their own mothers at gunpoint. Then they then kill the mothers, kidnap the boys, brainwash them, and train them to become part of the same military. This is a horrible situation for the people of Congo. Therefore, they would be better off if this practice was discontinued O Appeal to Pity O Appeal to Fear (including force) O Appeal to the People O Ad Hominem Strawman o Red Herring O No Fallacy

Explanation / Answer

4. Appeal to the People as it attempts to Encourage audience to accept what others believe

5. Appeal to Pity as it Brings up sad things to save the client

6. Appeal to Fear (including force) as it Brings up scary things

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