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  2. Outrage (emotion) - Wikipedia

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    Outrage is a strong moral emotion characterized by a combination of surprise, disgust, [1] and anger, [2] usually in reaction to a grave personal offense. [3] It comes from old French "ultrage", which in turn borrows from classical Latin "ultra", meaning "beyond".

  3. Appeal to emotion - Wikipedia

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    The power of emotions to influence judgment, including political attitudes, has been recognized since classical antiquity. Aristotle, in his treatise Rhetoric, described emotional arousal as critical to persuasion, "The orator persuades by means of his hearers, when they are roused to emotion by his speech; for the judgments we deliver are not the same when we are influenced by joy or sorrow ...

  4. Cambridge capital controversy - Wikipedia

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    The Cambridge capital controversy, sometimes called "the capital controversy" [1] or "the two Cambridges debate", [2] was a dispute between proponents of two differing theoretical and mathematical positions in economics that started in the 1950s and lasted well into the 1960s.

  5. Outrage constraint - Wikipedia

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    Outrage constraint. 1 language. ... This article appears to be a dictionary definition. Please rewrite it to present the subject from an encyclopedic point of view.

  6. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    The person making the argument expects that the listener will accept the provided definition, making the argument difficult to refute. [19] Divine fallacy (argument from incredulity) – arguing that, because something is so phenomenal or amazing, it must be the result of superior, divine, alien or paranormal agency. [20]

  7. Appeal to consequences - Wikipedia

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    In law, an argument from inconvenience or argumentum ab inconvenienti, is a valid type of appeal to consequences. Such an argument would seek to show that a proposed action would have unreasonably inconvenient consequences, as for example a law that would require a person wishing to lend money against a security to first ascertain the borrower ...

  8. Outrage factor - Wikipedia

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    The successful implementation of a policy relying on public support and cooperation must address the outrage factor when informing the public about the policy. [ 6 ] In an interview with New York Times journalist and Freakonomics author Stephen J. Dubner , Sandman emphasized "the most important truth in risk communication is the exceedingly low ...

  9. Argument - Wikipedia

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    An argument is a series of sentences, statements, or propositions some of which are called premises and one is the conclusion. [1]