Thursday, April 15, 2010

Just like fear from a horror movie

The book, "Critical Thinking" describes appeal to emotion "as an argument is just a premise that says, roughly, you should believe or do something because you feel a certain way". From what I feel, I believe appeal to emotion is a way of trying to manipulate someone to do a certain action within a certain emotion.

There are many different ways to appeal to an emotion, which are: Appeal to Pity, Appeal to Fear, Appeal to Spite, and Appeal to Vanity.

The one that caught my eye was the Appeal to Fear. The book Critical Thinking describes Appeal to Fear as, "a way politicians and advertisers manipulate people." The reason that caught my eye was that this type of appeal to emotion is seen all the time. An example could be the "Truth" commercials. They try to find horrible ways that smoking could effect the future of different people in many vulgar ways.

So I tried one of these Monday. FYI only try it if you are healthy.....

2 comments:

  1. Good job explaining the concepts in the book. You made them very clear anf precise, and your examples helped evn further for me to understand what was going on. Your titles to your blogs are always so creative and they help draw me in, to read your blogs. Like i have told you before, i like that you include pictures in you weekly blogs, it makes them a little more fun and it shows your creativness.IT cool:)! But really, what is that picture of???And why do you have to be healthy to eat it???Im a little confused.Anyway good job:)

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  2. lol its the new double down from KFC. instead of bread they hella put down 2 pieces of friends chicken with monteray jack, bacon, and some sauce. basically a heart stopper.

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