Thursday, April 14, 2011
Emotions: Friendly or Foe?
When appealing to emotions depending on how they are used an argument can be good or bad. They can also, but used to cause emotion towards someone or to oneself. Appealing of emotion can cause an argument that has a prescriptive conclusion or a descriptive conclusion. If an argument has a prescriptive conclusion in can be considered either good or bad because it is directed at convincing someone else, so depending on the premises the argument can be good or bad. If the argument appeal to the emotion is a descriptive conclusion it is going to be a bad argument. Descriptive conclusions can come with wishful thinking within an argument. Thinking of descriptions are true just because of the belief of believing in emotions can cause a bad argument because the appeal cant be deleted as premise
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