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Appeal to Pity: Are they trying
to get you to accept the proposition because you feel sorry
for someone rather than because of good reasons? |
The reader is told to agree to the proposition because of the
pitiful state of the author.
(i) How can you say that's out? It was so close, and besides,
I'm down ten games to two.
(ii) We hope you'll accept our recommendations. We spent the
last three months working extra time on it.
Identify the proposition and the appeal to pity and argue that
the pitiful state of the arguer has nothing to do with the truth
of the proposition.
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