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• Appeal - in law an appeal is a challenge of a judicial judgement to a higher authority, usually called an appellate court.

• Various types of logical fallacy are state in the form appeal to:
  • Appeal to tradition
  • Appeal to probability
  • Appeal to authority
  • Argumentum ad populum (appeal to belief)
  • Argument from ignorance (appeal to ignorance)
  • Argumentum ad populum (appeal to popularity, ..the majority, ..the people,)
  • Appeal to emotion
  • Appeal to novelty
  • Appeal to flattery
  • Appeal to fear
  • Appeal to consequences
  • Appeal to motive
  • Appeal to pity
  • Appeal to ridicule
  • Appeal to spite
  • Argumentum ad baculum (appeal to force, ..the stick)

An appeal is the act or fact of challenging a judicially cognizable and binding judgment to a higher judicial authority. ... Law (from the Old Norse lagu) in politics and jurisprudence, is a set of rules or norms of conduct which mandate, proscribe or permit specified relationships among people and organizations, intended to provide methods for ensuring the impartial treatment of such people, and provide punishments of/for those who do... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Appeal. ... In dialectic, the term logical fallacy properly refers to a formal fallacy: a flaw in the structure of a deductive argument which renders the argument invalid. ... Appeal to tradition, also known as appeal to common practice or argumentum ad antiquitatem is a common logical fallacy in which someone proclaims his or her accuracy by noting that this is how its always been done. ... The appeal to probability is a logical fallacy, often used in conjunction with other fallacies. ... An appeal to authority is a type of argument in logic also known as argument from authority, argumentum ad verecundiam (Latin: argument to respect) or ipse dixit (Latin: he himself said it, where an unsupported assertion depends on the asserters credibility). ... An argumentum ad populum, in logic, is a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or all people believe it; it alleges that In ethics this argument is stated, // Related ideas Argumentum ad populum has several aliases[1]: Appeal to belief Argumentum ad numerum Appeal to... Look up belief on Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The argument from ignorance, also known as argumentum ad ignorantiam or argument by lack of imagination, is a logical fallacy asserting that if something is currently unexplained then it did not (or could not) happen, or that if evidence of something has not been proven to their satisfaction, then it... Ignorance is a lack of knowledge, or a willful lack of desire to improve the efficiency, merit, effectiveness or usefulness of ones actions. ... An argumentum ad populum, in logic, is a fallacious argument that concludes a proposition to be true because many or all people believe it; it alleges that In ethics this argument is stated, // Related ideas Argumentum ad populum has several aliases[1]: Appeal to belief Argumentum ad numerum Appeal to... Popularity is the quality of being well-liked or common. ... Appeal to emotion is a logical fallacy wherein the arguer (who is using this fallacy) takes advantage of emotion to prove his or her argument. ... The appeal to novelty (also called argumentum ad novitatem) is a logical fallacy in which someone claims that his or her idea or proposal is correct or superior because it is new and modern. ... Appeal to flattery is a logical fallacy in which a person uses flattery in an attempt to win support for his side. ... An appeal to fear (also called argumentum ad metum or argumentum in terrorem) is a logical fallacy in which a person attempts to create support for his or her idea by playing on existing fears and prejudices. ... Appeal to consequences, also known as argumentum ad consequentiam (Latin: argument to the consequences), is an argument that concludes a premise (typically a belief) to be either true or false based on whether the premise leads to desirable or undesirable consequences. ... Appeal to motive is a pattern of argument which consists in challenging a thesis by calling into question the motives of its proposer. ... An appeal to pity (also called argumentum ad misericordiam) is a logical fallacy in which someone tries to win support for their argument or idea by exploiting their opponents feelings of pity or guilt. ... Appeal to ridicule is a logical fallacy which presents the opponents argument in a way that appears ridiculous and mocking it: If Einstein is right that would mean that when I drive my car it gets shorter and heavier. ... Appeal to spite (also called argumentum ad odium) is a logical fallacy in which someone attempts to win favor for an argument by exploiting existing feelings of bitterness or spite in the opposing party: By voting for my proposal instead of Jims, youll finally have a chance to... Argumentum ad baculum (Latin: argument to the cudgel or appeal to the stick), also known as appeal to force, is an argument where force, coercion, or the threat of force, is given as a justification for a conclusion. ...

Other uses

• Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, an 1829 abolitionist pamphlet written by David Walker
• The Commercial Appeal, a daily newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee.
• The Mariam Appeal, a political campaign established in 1998.

In sports: Cover of David Walkers Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World David Walker (September 28, 1785 - June 28, 1830) was a black abolitionist. ... The Commercial Appeal is the predominant daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee. ...

• Appeal (cricket), a request to an umpire for a ruling on whether a cricket batsman is out.
• An appeal play in baseball.