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Definition of the Appeal to Fear Fallacy. An appeal to fear fallacy happens when someone tries to frighten you into agreeing with them, instead of giving good reasons for why you should believe something is true or right.
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 attempting to increase fear towards an alternative.
Reviewed by A. Francisca Snoeck Henkemans In Scare Tactics, Douglas Walton aims to explain how arguments that use scare tactics, such as appeals to fear, threats and force, can be identified, analyzed and evaluated.
Fallacious arguments are arguments in which logical argumentation makes way for scare tactics. The term scare tactics covers arguments that make use of various kinds of appeals to fear,...
Scare Tactics, Arguments that Appeal to Fear and Threats. This paper presents a new Theory of the Underlying Structure of Fear and Threat Appeal Arguments and examines its application in Logic Textbooks and Argumentation Today.
29 cze 2013 · Scare Tactics, the first book on the subject, provides a theory of the structure of reasoning used in fear and threat appeal argumentation. Such arguments come under the heading of the...
Chapter 1 begins by presenting fourteen concrete examples of scare tactics (pp. 1–16), then briefly sketches three social science models that have been constructed to explain how appeals to fear work (16–20), and finally takes a preliminary look at the logical and rhetorical structure of such tactics and at the problems we encounter when we try ...
