Philosophy 006 | Chapter 6 - Emotional fallacies

attempts to use anger to influence feelings about a claim

blaming a situation on a person/group in attempt to elicit anger against them

attempts to use fear to influence feelings about a claim

specific threat to force people into accepting something

uses sympathy to gain acceptance of a claim

uses jealousy to gain acceptance of a claim

uses guilt to gain acceptance of a claim

desire for claim to be true because person wants it to be true

uses desire for social acceptance to get people to accept claim

desire to maintain identity as part of a group to gain acceptance

desire to maintain national identity to gain acceptance of a claim

attempt to flatter someone to accept a claim

introduces new irrelevant topic in order to divert attention away from the original topic

piles additional issues so original issue gets lost

accept a belief on basis that majority of people do

accept an action because majority of people do

accept an action/belief on basis that there's a long history of people believing/acting that way

accept a claim because you desire to be on the winning side

attempts to justify a selfish desire