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The document summarizes several logical fallacies including appeals to inappropriate authority, pity, anger, personal attacks, and popularity. It provides definitions and examples for each fallacy type to illustrate how arguments could improperly leverage emotions or non-relevant attributes rather than sound reasoning.

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The document summarizes several logical fallacies including appeals to inappropriate authority, pity, anger, personal attacks, and popularity. It provides definitions and examples for each fallacy type to illustrate how arguments could improperly leverage emotions or non-relevant attributes rather than sound reasoning.

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Darwin M.

Etang
Cruz
Logic
2016

Prof. Dela
April 2,

Argumentum Ad Verecundiam (Appeal to inappropriate authority)


The ASA ruled that the advert must not appear again in its current
form. It noted the clowns menacing expression and glowing red
eyes were likely to distress young children.
Some people were not so supportive of Ms NeeTurners campaign.
Facebook user Simon Hill said: I dont think its inappropriate at
all, advertising the event and supporting a local attraction seems
like a good idea to me

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/creepy-halloweenpennywise-lookalike-clown-advert-banned-after-children-left-so-upset-innorwich-a6753526.html

ARGUMENTUM AD MISERICORDIAM (Appeal to Pity)


Most of the modern world is built on the principles that justice is
blind and that no man is above the law. Thing is, much as those
principles are great, they rely on someone being willing and able to
enforce the law. This trope is what happens when there's nobody who
can or will.
Maybe someone has a bigger army than the police, maybe they have
a nuke buried under a major city, maybe they just have superpowers
that render them nigh-invincible, but in any case they are free to
break any law they want without fear of any sort of official justice.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main

ARGUMENTUM AD INVIDIAM (Appeal to Anger)


You have every right to be angry, he said. I know you are not what
theyre labeling you. But I also know that anger alone is not a
solution.

He dwelled on this issue of the angry voter, some of whom are


disaffected Republicans who have flocked to outsider candidates like
Donald Trump and Ben Carson.
Christie largely refrained from attacking Trump.
Instead, he said he understands the source of Americans anxiety
and pessimism: the failed policies, in his view, of President Obama
and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whom he has attacked
increasingly lately.
http://www.unionleader.com/article/20160104/NEWS0605/160109783/1/news#sthash.CLEAk77R.dpuf

ARGUMENTUM AD HOMINEM (Personal Attack)

This wasn't in any way a


personal attack, nor an
indication of who to vote
for.
The Pope has clearly said he
didn't want to get involved
in the electoral campaign in
the US, and also said that
he said what he said on the
basis of what he was told
[about Trump], hence
giving him the benefit of
the doubt.
The Pope said what we
already know, if we followed

his teaching and positions:


We shouldn't build walls,
but bridges.
He has always said that,
continuously. He also said
that in relation to migration
in Europe many times.
So this is not a specific
issue, limited to this
particular case.
It's his generic view,
coherent with the nature of
solidarity from the Gospel.'
Vatican spokesman Father
Federico Lombardi

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3454720/Popes-comments-Trump-notpersonal-attack-papal-spokesman.html#ixzz44V4lhSnV

ARGUMENTUM AD POPULUM (Appeal to the interests and passions of


the people rather than reason)

Eight out of ten cats prefer Whiskas


If eight out of ten phone buyers choose Android, it doesnt
necessarily make it the best choice. It does make it the most
popular one.
Likewise if everyone in the airport business lounge is
working on an Apple MacBook, that doesnt automatically
make it the best laptop choice. It makes it the most popular
choice in that business lounge.

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