Appeal to Pity: Argumentum Ad Misericordiam
Douglas Walton
Appeal to pity has frequently been exploited with amazing success as a deceptive tactic of argumentation, so much so that it has traditionally been treated as a fallacy. Using a case study method, the author examines examples of appeals to pity and compassion in real arguments in order to classify, analyze, and evaluate the types of arguments used in these appeals. Among the cases studied are the controversial use of "poster kids" in the Jerry Lewis Telethon for Muscular Dystrophy and the "baby incubators story" deployed by a public relations firm to influence the decision to send U.S. forces into Kuwait during the Gulf War. In addition to the analyses of these and other case studies, this book provides, for the first time, precise guidelines and useful criteria with which to identify, analyze, and evaluate instances of the ad misericordiam argument.
Рік:
1997
Видання:
1st
Видавництво:
State University of New York Press
Мова:
english
Сторінки:
251
ISBN 10:
0791434621
ISBN 13:
9780791434628
Серії:
SUNY Series in Logic and Language
Файл:
PDF, 803 KB
IPFS:
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english, 1997