Appeal to pity
id:
appeal-to-pity-259-5046155
title:
Appeal to pity
text:
An appeal to pity is a fallacy in which someone tries to win support for an argument or idea by exploiting one's opponent's feelings of pity or guilt. It is a specific kind of appeal to emotion. The name "Galileo argument" refers to the scientist's suffering as a result of his house arrest by the Inquisition.
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Type of logical fallacy
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_pity
date created:
date modified:
2023-11-07T08:10:22Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q732977","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q732977"}
image:
fields total:
13
integrity:
14