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Appeal to ridicule (also called appeal to mockery, ad absurdo, or the horse laugh)[1] is an informal fallacy which presents an opponent's argument as absurd, ridiculous, or humorous, and therefore not worthy of serious consideration.

  1. ^ Moore, Brooke Noel (2015). Critical thinking. Richard Parker, Nina Rosenstand, Anita Silvers (11 ed.). Dubuque. ISBN 978-0-07-811914-9. OCLC 855209109.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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Appeal to ridicule

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Appeal to ridicule (also called appeal to mockery, ad absurdo, or the horse laugh) is an informal fallacy which presents an opponent's argument as absurd...

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Appeal to emotion

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including appeal to consequences, appeal to fear, appeal to flattery, appeal to pity, appeal to ridicule, appeal to spite, and wishful thinking. Appeal to emotion...

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List of fallacies

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agreement. Appeal to ridicule (reductio ad ridiculum, reductio ad absurdum, ad absurdum) – mocking or stating that the opponent's position is laughable to deflect...

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Appeal to the stone

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providing evidence to disprove their idea, point by point. Philosophy portal Ad hominem Solvitur ambulando Ignoratio elenchi Appeal to ridicule Argumentum ad...

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Appeal to tradition

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Appeal to tradition (also known as argumentum ad antiquitatem or argumentum ad antiquitam, appeal to antiquity, or appeal to common practice) is a claim...

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Mockery

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consideration. Appeal to ridicule is often found in the form of comparing a nuanced circumstance or argument to a laughably commonplace occurrence or to some other...

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Poisoning the well

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fresh water before an invading army, to diminish the invading army's strength. Philosophy portal Appeal to ridicule Black propaganda Dog whistle (politics)...

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Appeal to consequences

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Appeal to consequences, also known as argumentum ad consequentiam (Latin for "argument to the consequence"), is an argument that concludes a hypothesis...

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Reductio ad absurdum

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absurdum arguments in formal fields such as logic and mathematics. Appeal to ridicule Argument from fallacy Contraposition List of Latin phrases Mathematical...

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Appeal to pity

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An appeal to pity (also called argumentum ad misericordiam, the sob story, or the Galileo argument) is a fallacy in which someone tries to win support...

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Appeal to probability

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An appeal to probability (or appeal to possibility, also known as possibiliter ergo probabiliter, "possibly, therefore probably") is the logical fallacy...

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Argument from authority

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has quotations related to Argument from authority. An argument from authority (argumentum ab auctoritate), also called an appeal to authority, or argumentum...

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Sokal affair

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article. Academese Appeal to ridicule – Type of logical fallacy Bogdanov affair – 2002 French academic dispute, sometimes referred to as a reverse Sokal...

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Appeal to nature

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An appeal to nature is a rhetorical technique for presenting and proposing the argument that "a thing is good because it is 'natural', or bad because...

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Appeal to fear

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an idea by attempting to increase fear towards an alternative. An appeal to fear is related to the broader strategy of fear appeal and is a common tactic...

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Appeal to flattery

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Appeal to flattery is a fallacy in which a person uses flattery, excessive compliments, in an attempt to appeal to their audience's vanity to win support...

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Ridiculous

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their attention, and sometimes unintendedly so as to be considered laughable and earn or provoke ridicule and derision. It comes from the 1540s Latin "ridiculosus"...

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Argumentum ad populum

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Other names for the fallacy include: appeal to (common) belief appeal to popularity appeal to the majority appeal to the masses argument from consensus...

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Appeal to motive

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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...

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Association fallacy

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consensus. An example of this is: "Alex is being ridiculed due to his (false) claim of vaccines to cause health problems, therefore he is correct". Common...

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Appeal to novelty

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The appeal to novelty (also called appeal to modernity or argumentum ad novitatem) is a fallacy in which one prematurely claims that an idea or proposal...

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Appeal to accomplishment

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Appeal to accomplishment is a Logical fallacy wherein Person A challenges a thesis put forward by Person B because Person B has not accomplished similar...

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Argumentum ad crumenam

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An argumentum ad crumenam argument, also known as an argument to the purse, is the informal fallacy of concluding that a statement is correct because the...

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Argumentum ad baculum

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baculum (Latin for "argument to the cudgel" or "appeal to the stick") is the fallacy committed when one makes an appeal to force to bring about the acceptance...

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Appeal to loyalty

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The appeal to loyalty is a logical fallacy committed when the premise of an argument uses a perceived need for loyalty of some sort to distract from the...

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Argument from ignorance

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from ignorance (from Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), also known as appeal to ignorance (in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence")...

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