The rhetorical appeal that persuades an audience by appealing to their emotions.
What is Pathos?
Making a point about a subject and supporting it with evidence.
What is an argument?
The belief that a position is true or correct because it is somehow patriotic, and those who disagree are somehow unpatriotic.
What is the Patriotic Appeal?
The belief that something must be true because it is based on a past or current tradition. In other words, "We've always believed or done it this way!"
What is Argument from Tradition?
The word empathy comes from this word in Greek.
What is PATHOS?
The rhetorical appeal that persuades an audience by appealing to their sense of moral character using trustworthiness, fairness, honesty, etc.
What is Ethos?
Studying the formal processes used in thinking and reasoning to try to make sense out of things.
What is Logic?
Attacking or praising the people who make an argument rather than discussing the argument itself.
What is Ad Hominem?
Using an authority as evidence in your argument when the authority is not really an authority on the facts relevant to the argument.
What is Appeal to Improper Authority?
The word logical comes from this word in Greek.
What is Logos?
The rhetorical appeal that persuades an audience by appealing to their sense of reason using facts, figures, etc.
What is LOGOS?
An argument made up of a major and minor premise (statements or accepted truths) and a conclusion based on them.
What is a syllogism?
The belief that if a person accepts the attributes of the social or intellectual "superior" they will also be socially or intellectually "superior".
What is Snob Appeal?
When pity or a related emotion such as sympathy or compassion is appealed to for the sake of getting a conclusion accepted.
What is Appeal to Pity?
The word ethical comes from this word in Greek.
What is Ethos?
"I'm begging you! Please loan me 50 dollars to get medicine for my goldfish Harry! He has an air bladder infection!" This example uses this rhetorical appeal.
What is PATHOS?
A breakdown or error in the terms of reasoning.
What is a fallacy?
The use of force, or the threat of force, or some other unpleasant backlash to make people accept a conclusion.
What is Appeal to Force?
The argument that says something must be false because if it were true it would create negative results.
What is Argument from Adverse (Bad) Consequences?
The word sympathy comes from this word in Greek.
What is Pathos?
"I have been with the company for six years, have won employee of the year for three years straight, and many customers have given me positive reviews for my knowledgable and fair relationships with them." This example uses this rhetorical appeal.
What is ETHOS?
A statement or an accepted truth about something (used in a syllogism).
What is a premise?
The assumption that the opinion of the majority is always valid: that is, everyone believes it, so you should, too.
What is Bandwagon?
Arguing that something is true because it has not been proved false or that something is false because it has not been proved true.
What is an Argument from Ignorance?
The word logistics comes from this word in Greek.
What is Logic?