Propaganda is generally an appeal to emotion, not intellect.

By appeal to emotion:

He championed the learning of Greek ( and Greek rhetoric ), contributed to Roman ethics, linguistics, philosophy, and politics, and emphasized the importance of all forms of appeal ( emotion, humor, stylistic range, irony and digression in addition to pure reasoning ) in oratory.

A fair jury trial, for example, requires that the jury ignore irrelevant features of the case, weigh the relevant features appropriately, consider different possibilities open-mindedly and resist fallacies such as appeal to emotion.

Some so-called fallacies are not rhetorically intended to appeal to reason but rather to emotion, or a more nuanced disposition.

The appeal to emotion is used in exploiting existing fears to create support for the speaker's proposal, namely P. Also, often the false dilemma fallacy is involved, suggesting Q is the proposed idea's sole alternative.

Appeal to flattery is a specific kind of appeal to emotion.

It is a specific kind of appeal to emotion.

This kind of appeal to emotion is a type of red herring and encompasses several logical fallacies, including:

Conclusively, the appeal to emotion fallacy presents a perspective intended to be superior to reason.

Though these emotions may be provoked by an appeal to emotion fallacy, substantial proof of the argument is not offered, and the argument's premises remain invalid.

Other types of fallacies may also overlap with or constitute an appeal to emotion, including:

The ad hominem can be a similar appeal to a negative emotion, but differs from it in directly criticizing the villain — that is unnecessary in an appeal to spite, where hatred for the villain is assumed.

This is based on an appeal to emotion and is a form of logical fallacy, since the desirability of a consequence does not address the truth value of the premise.

Blair's appeal to both emotion and reason, combined with his non-confrontational, moderate and elegant style made each volume of Sermons increasingly popular.

This is a rhetorical tactic that mocks an opponent's argument or standpoint, attempting to inspire an emotional reaction ( making it a type of appeal to emotion ) in the audience and to highlight the counter-intuitive aspects of that argument, making it appear foolish and contrary to common sense.

Association fallacies are a special case of red herring, and can be based on an appeal to emotion.

In rhetoric, loaded language ( also known as loaded term, emotive language, high-inference language or language persuasive techniques ) is wording that attempts to influence the certain audience by using an appeal to emotion.

The appeal to emotion is often seen as being in contrast to an appeal to logic and reason.

Armed with a manifesto written by Houseman declaring their intention to foster new talent, experiment with new types of plays, and appeal to the same audiences that frequented the Federal Theater the company was designed largely to offer plays of the past, preferably those that "... seem to have emotion or factual bearing on contemporary life .” The company mounted several notable productions, the most remarkable being its first commercial production of Julius Caesar.

Any discrete emotion can be used in a persuasive appeal ; this may include jealousy, disgust, indignation, fear, blue, disturbed, haunted, and anger.

It is an important variable in emotion appeal messages because it dictates a person ’ s ability to deal with both the emotion and the situation.

Moore argued that once arguments based on the naturalistic fallacy had been discarded, questions of intrinsic goodness could only be settled by appeal to what he ( following Sidgwick ) called " moral intuitions :" self-evident propositions which recommend themselves to moral reflection, but which are not susceptible to either direct proof or disproof ( PE § 45 ).

Some people use the phrase " naturalistic fallacy " or " appeal to nature " to characterize inferences of the form " This behaviour is natural ; therefore, this behaviour is morally acceptable " or " This property is unnatural ; therefore, this property is undesireable.

However this sentence structure makes is sound like an appeal to popularity or normalcy fallacy.

In the 20th century, Princeton University professor Peter Singer argued that Bentham's conclusion is often dismissed by an appeal to a distinction that condemns human suffering but allows non-human suffering, typically " appeals " that are logical fallacies ( unless the distinction is factual, in which case the appeal is just one logical fallacy petitio principii ).

Appeal to tradition ( also known as proof from tradition, appeal to common practice, argumentum ad antiquitatem ) is a common fallacy in which a thesis is deemed correct on the basis that it correlates with some past or present tradition.

An appeal to fear ( also called argumentum ad metum or argumentum in terrorem ) is a fallacy in which a person attempts to create support for an idea by using deception and propaganda in attempts to increase fear and prejudice toward a competitor.

The appeal to novelty ( also called argumentum ad novitatem ) is a fallacy in which someone prematurely claims that an idea or proposal is correct or superior, exclusively because it is new and modern.

Conversely, this is satirised as bleeding edge technology by skeptics ( this may itself be an example of the appeal to tradition fallacy ).

An appeal to pity ( also called argumentum ad misericordiam ) is a fallacy in which someone tries to win support for an argument or idea by exploiting his or her opponent's feelings of pity or guilt.

There may be other reasons to accept the invited conclusion, but an appeal to pity is not one of them ( see also, argument from fallacy ).

An appeal to spite ( also called argumentum ad odium ) is a fallacy in which someone attempts to win favor for an argument by exploiting existing feelings of bitterness, spite, or schadenfreude in the opposing party.

Appeal to ridicule, also called appeal to mockery, Stewart's fallacy, the Horse Laugh, is a logical fallacy which presents an opponent's argument as absurd, ridiculous, or in any way humorous, to the specific end of presenting that argument false on the basis of ridicule, shame, or purported absurdity.

* Characterizing a statement as " ridiculous " or " absurd " without saying specifically that it is not true ; reductio ad ridiculum fallacy or appeal to ridicule.

Although many scientists do recognize teleonomy ( a tendency in nature ), few philosophers appeal to it ( this time, to avoid the Moralistic fallacy ).

Argumentum ad lazarum or appeal to poverty is the logical fallacy of thinking a conclusion is correct because the speaker is poor, or it's incorrect because the speaker is rich.

John Searle criticizes Penrose's appeal to Gödel as resting on the fallacy that all computational algorithms must be capable of mathematical description.

The usage of " traditional values " can in some cases imply that said values, in being traditional, are better than values that are non-traditional ; but without giving a defense of why they might be better other than an appeal to tradition, which would be a fallacy of logic.

An appeal to probability is a justification based on probability, sometimes regarded as a logical fallacy, when an unwarranted assumption that something will happen, because it can happen, or when the odds of an occurrence are unrealistically played down in lieu of appropriate precaution.

* Melodrama: a sub-type of drama films that uses plots that appeal to the heightened emotions of the audience.

Philosophy does not try to answer questions by appeal to revelation, myth or religious knowledge of any kind, but uses reason, " without reference to sensible observation and experiments ".

He claims that the Mass of Paul VI uses a Modernist method of mixing traditional language with Protestant language to appeal to both sides, and thus falling into heresy, in the same way as the Church of England is said to be " both Catholic and Reformed ".

" Media analyst Tom Alderman wrote, " There is a sub-set of Reality TV that can only be described as Shame TV because it uses humiliation as its core appeal.

Most significantly, their work transformed the appeal of the Web from niche uses in the technical area to mass-market appeal.

* Responding to an appeal from Tarentum, King Pyrrhus of Epirus uses his army of over 20, 000 men against the Romans.

This can be considered an appeal to descriptive linguistics rather than prescriptive linguistics, as it resolves the issue of definition based on how the population uses natural language.

Many non-prefab restaurants ( including franchises like Denny's ) have copied the look of 1950s diners for nostalgic appeal, while Waffle House uses an interior layout derived from the diner.

An alternative to Tarskian ( model theoretic ) semantics is proposed for some uses where " the truth conditions for quantified formuli are given purely in terms of truth with no appeal to domains of interpretation ".

MacDonald contends that, like Freudian psychoanalysis and Marxism, neoconservatism uses arguments that appeal to non-Jews, rather than appealing explicitly to Jewish interests.

As in other uses, a claim of " playing the race card " may either be a legitimate defense to such an invalid argument, or an attempt to minimize a prior appeal to the audience's racism.

Young Adult Literature uses a wide array of themes in order to appeal to a wide variety of adolescent readers.

Drawing on Christian theology, SRT uses rock / hip hop concert-style events in an attempt to appeal to 21st century teenagers.

In particular the text uses the style of a discourse and series of questions with a vision of Jesus that was popular amongst Gnostic groups, so as to appeal to the same readers.

Krauze accused Fuentes of selling out to the PRI government and being " out of touch with Mexico ", distorting its people to appeal to foreign audiences: " There is the suspicion in Mexico that Fuentes merely uses Mexico as a theme, distorting it for a North American public, claiming credentials that he does not have.