Appeal (disambiguation)

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Appeal may refer to:

Arguments and rhetoric

• Various types of informal fallacy are described as an appeal to something. These are examples of "weak" or rejected appeals, e.g.:
  • Appeal to authority
  • Appeal to novelty
  • Appeal to probability
  • Appeal to tradition
• In rhetoric, an appeal is defined as a "persuasive strategy" such as Aristotle's three artistic proofs:
  • Ethos – an appeal to the credibility of the speaker
  • Logos – an appeal to the logical or reasoning
  • Pathos – an appeal to emotion

Law and parliamentary procedure

• Appeal, in law an appeal is a challenge of a judicial judgement to a higher authority, usually called an appellate court
  • Appeal procedure before the European Patent Office
  • Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, in the United States
• Appeal (motion), in parliamentary procedure, an appeal is a challenge of the chair's ruling

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Appeal, an anti-slavery document by abolitionist David Walker
• The Appeal, a novel by John Grisham
• The Commercial Appeal, a daily newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee

Philosophy

A common rhetorical device in philosophical texts: "this appeals to/from that" -means roughly "to make sense of this with regard to that"

Examples:

Philosophical Investigations, by Ludwig Wittgenstein

• 228 "... it gives expression to the fact that we look to the rule for instruction and do something, without appealing to anything else for guidance."
• 265 "... justification consists in appealing to something independent. ... surely I can appeal from one memory to another."

The Problems of Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell

• Ch VI "... If we are challenged as to why we believe that it will continue to rise as heretofore, we may appeal to the laws of motion: ..."
• Ch VII. "... 'Why should I accept the results of valid arguments based on true premisses?' we can only answer by appealing to our principle. ..."

Politics

• Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World, an 1829 abolitionist pamphlet written by David Walker
• Appeal of 18 June, Charles de Gaulle's call for French resistance against Nazi Germany after the Battle of France
• The Mariam Appeal, a political campaign established in 1998

Sports

• Appeal (cricket), a request to an umpire for a ruling on whether a cricket batsman is out
• Appeal play, in baseball

Other uses

• Appeal, for an object or person, see:
  • Preference
  • Taste (sociology)
• Sex appeal