Category: Appeals to Motives in Place of Support
Definition: The reader is warned of unacceptable consequences
Examples:
Proof:
The author points to the disagreeable consequences of holding a particular belief in order to show that this belief is false.
Identify the consequences to and argue that what we want to be the case does not affect what is in fact the case. (Cedarblom and Paulsen: 100, Davis: 63)