Appeal to
Appeal to verb - To make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner.
Usage example: when supplies at the food bank ran desperately low, officials appealed to the public for some much-needed replacements
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- Appeal to Audacity: Inazuma claiming to be responsible in chapter 3 for stealing Yvonne's tablet would have been dismissed as ridiculous if not for who was making that very claim.
Source: Fanfic / The Greatest Generation - Usually involves an appeal to one's own authority and/or Burden of Proof Fallacy, and is essentially a claim of personal omniscience; if the arguer cannot imagine a way for something to have happened, it is clearly impossible.
Source: Appeal to Ignorance - However his claim was based on Popularity Power and Appeal to Force and it is not really known how good a King he would have been.
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