Appeal (disambiguation)
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Appeal may refer to:
- Appeal - in law an appeal is a challenge of a judicial judgement to a higher authority, usually called an appellate court.
- Various types of logical fallacy are described as an appeal to something:
- Appeal to tradition
- Appeal to probability
- Appeal to authority
- Argument from ignorance (appeal to ignorance)
- Argumentum ad populum (appeal to belief, appeal to the majority, appeal to the people)
- Appeal to emotion
- Appeal to novelty
- Appeal to flattery
- Appeal to fear
- Appeal to consequences
- Appeal to motive
- Appeal to pity
- Appeal to ridicule
- Appeal to spite
- Argumentum ad baculum (appeal to force, appeal to the stick)
[edit] Other uses
- 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 Commercial Appeal, a daily newspaper in Memphis, Tennessee.
- The Mariam Appeal, a political campaign established in 1998.
- For an object's or person's appeal, see preference or Taste (sociology)
In sports:
- Appeal (cricket), a request to an umpire for a ruling on whether a cricket batsman is out.
- An appeal play in baseball.
