Appeal to motive

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title: Appeal to motive
text: Appeal to motive is a pattern of argument which consists in challenging a thesis by calling into question the motives of its proposer. It can be considered as a special case of the ad hominem circumstantial argument. As such, this type of argument is an informal fallacy. A common feature of appeals to motive is that only the possibility of a motive is shown, without showing the motive actually existed or, if the motive did exist, that the motive played a role in forming the argument and its conc
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description: Questioning the motives of the proposer
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_motive
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