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    For an argument to be successful with a specific audience... — Carmelics
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    For an argument to be successful with a specific audience, its premises must be emotionally acceptable to that audience, not merely true.

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    • 1.Arguments are often attempts to convince a specific audience of a conclusion.
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    • 2.Aristotle argues in the Rhetoric that successful arguments must have premises in keeping with the pathos of the audience.
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    • 3.The emotional character of premises must not undermine the ethos of the arguer.
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    • 1.Frege's distinction between the logical content of a proposition and its psychological presentation entails that validity is entirely independent of audience affect.
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    • 2.An argument's success conditions must be separated into epistemic success (truth-preservation) and rhetorical success (persuasion), which are categorically distinct.
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    • 3.Conflating persuasive efficacy with argumentative soundness commits the genetic fallacy by grounding appraisal in reception rather than in propositional structure.
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    • 1.Habermas's theory of communicative rationality holds that ideal discourse requires bracketing emotional acceptability in favor of the 'unforced force of the better argument'.
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    • 2.If emotional acceptability were a success condition, arguments that exploit affective bias—such as appeals to fear or tribal loyalty—would count as successful, which is normatively untenable.
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    In situations in which arguments are attempts to convince a specific audience of a conclusion, an acceptable premise may need to be true, but also acceptable to the members of this audience. As Aristotle suggests in the Rhetoric, successful arguments may need to have premises that are in keeping with the pathos of an audience (and do so in a way that does not undermine the character — the ethos — of the arguer). As Gilbert 1997, 2014 has emphasized, there are many real life circumstances in whic
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