AinA 120 – Issues primarily relating to relevance:

For this part of the course the SQA lists the following:

Issues primarily relating to relevance:

• ad hominems, including ad hominem abusive, ad hominem circumstantial and ad hominem tu quoque, and discussion of when an ‘attack on the person’ is not fallacious
• fallacious appeals to emotion, including recognising the criteria that might be used to distinguish legitimate appeals to emotion from fallacious appeals to emotion
• inappropriate, poor analogies: explaining how pertinent differences between the things used in the analogy serve to undermine the analogical reasoning

We have already considered ad hominem arguments, analogical arguments, and bad analogies. We will consider fallacious appeals to emotion on the following page.