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English Audio Request

DuHast
174 Words / 3 Recordings / 1 Comments
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An Appeal to Emotion is a fallacy with the following structure:

-Favorable emotions are associated with X.
-Therefore, X is true.

This fallacy is committed when someone manipulates peoples' emotions in order to get them to accept a claim as being true. More formally, this sort of "reasoning" involves the substitution of various means of producing strong emotions in place of evidence for a claim. If the favorable emotions associated with X influence the person to accept X as true because they "feel good about X," then he has fallen prey to the fallacy.

This sort of "reasoning" is very common in politics and it serves as the basis for a large portion of modern advertising. Most political speeches are aimed at generating feelings in people so that these feelings will get them to vote or act a certain way. in the case of advertising, the commercials are aimed at evoking emotions that will influence people to buy certain products. In most cases, such speeches and commercials are notoriously free of real evidence.
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Recordings

  • Appeal to Emotion (1/3) ( recorded by Cats ), Canadian

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  • Appeal to Emotion (1/3) ( recorded by emchocolat ), Standard southern English accent

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  • Appeal to Emotion (1/3) ( recorded by catkerrfl ), United States

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    An Appeal to Emotion is a fallacy with the following structure:

    -Favorable emotions are associated with X.
    -Therefore, X is true.

    This fallacy is committed when someone manipulates peoples' emotions in order to get them to accept a claim as being true. More formally, this sort of "reasoning" involves the substitution of various means of producing strong emotions in place of evidence for a claim. If the favorable emotions associated with X influence the person to accept X as true because they "feel good about X," then he has fallen prey to the fallacy.

    This sort of "reasoning" is very common in politics and it serves as the basis for a large portion of modern advertising. Most political speeches are aimed at generating feelings in people so that these feelings will get them to vote or act a certain way. in the case of advertising, the commercials are aimed at evoking emotions that will influence people to buy certain products. In most cases, such speeches and commercials are notoriously free of real evidence.

Comments

DuHast
Sept. 11, 2020

Thanks. :)