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	Appeal to pity -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Appeal to pity -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		An appeal to pity (also called argumentum ad misericordiam) is a (A fallacy in logical argumentation) logical fallacy in which someone tries to win support for their argument or idea by exploiting their opponent's feelings of pity or guilt.
		The appeal to pity is a specific kind of (additional info and facts about appeal to emotion) appeal to emotion.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ap/appeal_to_pity.htm (115 words)

	Encyclopedia: Appeal to authority (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		An appeal to authority is a type of argument in logic also known as argument from authority, argumentum ad verecundiam (Latin: argument to respect) or ipse dixit (Latin: he himself said it, where an unsupported assertion depends on the asserter's credibility).
		Sometimes, an appeal to authority is a logical fallacy.
		The bandwagon fallacy, also known as appeal to the people, authority of the many, consensus gentium (from Latin consensus gentium), argument by consensus, appeal to the gallery, appeal to popularity or argumentum ad populum, is a fallacy where something is proven by stating that many or all people believe it...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Appeal-to-authority (1851 words)

	Fallacies [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Ad hominem, appeal to pity, and affirming the consequent are some of the fallacies of relevance.
		This is a fallacious appeal to authority because, although the president is an authority on many neighborhood matters, he is no authority on the composition of the moon.
		You commit the fallacy of appeal to emotions when someone's appeal to you to accept their claim is accepted merely because the appeal arouses your feelings of anger, fear, grief, love, outrage, pity, pride, sexuality, sympathy, relief, and so forth.
	www.iep.utm.edu /f/fallacies.htm (13524 words)

	CRI Journal - CRJ0038B
		When one fallaciously argues by appealing to pity, one is arguing that certain actions should be permitted or tolerated out of pity for those performing them (or those on whose behalf they are done), when in fact the basis for showing them pity is not a legitimate basis for the action.
		Another reason cited for advocating the aborting of the defective unborn is that it is better for such children never to be born rather than to live a life burdened with a serious mental or physical handicap.
		Finally, abortion is sometimes justified by pro-choicers by appealing to certain extreme cases in which the entities in the womb are so genetically abnormal as to be arguably nonhuman.
	www.iclnet.org /pub/resources/text/cri/cri-jrnl/web/crj0038b.html (5657 words)

	Plato from FOLDOC
		Early dialogues are typically devoted to investigation of a single issue, about which a conclusive result is rarely achieved.
		Thus, the Euthyphro raises a significant doubt about whether morally right action can be defined in terms of divine approval by pointing out a significant dilemma about any appeal to authority in defence of moral judgments.
		Nearby terms: pity appeal to « plan « Planck Max Karl Ernst Ludwig « Plato » Platonic realism » platonism » plenitude principle of
	lgxserve.ciseca.uniba.it /lei/foldop/foldoc.cgi?Plato (880 words)

	Appeal to Pity - EvoWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
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		Examples for the fallacy of Appeal to Pity (http://datanation.com/fallacies/ap.htm) in creationist arguments:
		Biologists will want to throw you out of the class if don't believe in evolution
	www.evowiki.org /index.php/Appeal_to_Pity (114 words)

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