Beliefs: The More Emotion is Involved, the Less Evidence is Required

Update: 2017-06-05

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Often people form their beliefs with strong emotions. One of the best examples of this is how the anti-vaccine campaigns win support by connecting autistic children to vaccine use. Beliefs have both emotional and logical components. The more emotion is used, the less evidence is required for the belief to hold. This is why the appeal to emotion is such a dangerous (and powerful) fallacy. If a claim is void of any decent evidence, appealing to emotion is an effective way to compensate if the goal. . . See the complete description at Logically Fallacious

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Beliefs: The More Emotion is Involved, the Less Evidence is Required

Beliefs: The More Emotion is Involved, the Less Evidence is Required