Argument
- Various types of informal fallacy are described as an appeal to something. These are examples of "weak" or rejected appeals, eg:
- Appeal to tradition
- Appeal to novelty
- Appeal to probability
- Appeal to authority
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Famous quotes containing the word argument:
“The argument ad feminam, all the old knives
that have rusted in my back, I drive in yours,
ma semblable, ma soeur!”
—Adrienne Rich (b. 1929)
“The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one’s opinion, but rather to know it.”
—André Maurois (1885–1967)
“There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)