Pathos Is Not A Dirty Word, And It Belongs In A Writerâs Vocabulary. Pathos is down on its luck these days; appeals to emotion are bound up in reasonable fears of âpost-truthâ and âpopulistâ writing, but Iâm here to tell you that intelligent use of pathos can make your fiction better.
Sometimes a person thinks they are offering an argument when they are only providing assertions. Perhaps the simplest explanation of what an argument is comes from Monty Pythons Argument Clinic sketch: 1  An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition.
A statistical argument is an inductive argument (under an inductive formal language) that is supported by a random sample. 1  AKA: Statistical Inference. 2  Context: 3  It can abide. 4  Counter-Example(s): 5  a Deductive Argument (e.g. a Causal Argument, Propositional Argument). 6  an Abductive Argument (e.g. Analogical Argument).