Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Quesion #1
According to our book, “Critical Thinking” by Richard L. Epstein, the definition of an appeal to emotion within an argument is “just a premise that says, roughly, you should believe or do something because you feel a certain way. There are four different ways that you could appeal to someone else’s emotions. There is appeal to pity, appealing to fear, appeal to spite, and also appeal to vanity. All four of these are great tactics to get someone to agree with you statement or argument. The one that strikes me the most is appeal to pity. I think this strikes me the most out of the four because I seen this used a lot within our groups last paper we did. We did our paper on the ASPCA, and after doing research we came to the conclusion that they play of peoples emotions and/or their pity for the animals in order to get them to donate.
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Hi Cosmo, I really enjoyed your post and it seemed really similar to the one I did for this question. I felt that the appeal to pity is the one that strikes me the most too, you make me feel bad, sad or sorry for something and it really seems to get to me. My group also wrote our last paper on the social organization, the ASPCA and I used the examples we found during our research for that paper as a part of my post. I agree with you the ASPCA definitely uses an appeal to emotion (appeal to pity) to get people to donate to their organization and cause.
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