IPE Award: Top Nutrition Blog 2015 - Culinary Therapy. The Institute for the Psychology of Eating has named my blog one of the 100 Best Nutrition Blogs of 2015. Thank you! Iâm both thrilled and honored.
Description of Special Pleading. Special Pleading is a fallacy in which a person applies standards, principles, rules, etc. to others while taking herself (or those she has a special interest in) to be exempt, without providing adequate justification for the exemption. This sort of reasoning has the following form:
3 pleading a cause on behalf of another, such as a nurse pleading for better care of a patient or for the patient's desires to be honored. (1) The process of actively supporting the cause of, speaking or writing in favour of, or defending or interceding on behalf of a person (case advocacy) or group (class advocacy).