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.
Handout: Argument Fallacies. Ad Hominem (literally argument to the man): attacking a person's character instead of the. content of that person's argument. Not simply name-calling, this argument suggests that the. argument is flawed because of its source. For example, David Horowitz as quoted in the Daily.