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The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
Emotional and logical appeal
How can you be sure the colonist will win?
Faulty analogy and begging the question
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God is on the American side
Ethical Appeal
We do not really know if God is on either side or any side at all.
Begging the question – knowing what God wants
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Thomas Pain is trying to get people to fight for freedom as soon as possible so they do not leave it up to their children
Emotional, ethical, and logical appeal
We should not fight because problems will work themselves out.
Things could possibly get worse
Bandwagon – not a man lives on the continent…
False Dichotomy – gives two extreme options
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Argument by analogy – the kings is like a thief, so we should fight him
Emotional Appeal
The English are too powerful; the Americans would be overwhelmed by the Crown’s force.
Thomas Paine – Paine uses mostly emotional appeal in order to be persuasive in a passionate way. Because he uses emotional appeal, his arguments lack logic, and it becomes easy to make counter arguments using logic.
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