E10/EF7 Good ways to trick people in an argument

The Appeal to Authority is a fallacy with the following form: Person A is (claimed to be) an authority on subject S. Person A makes claim C about subject S. Therefore, C is true. The Appeal to Fear is a fallacy with the following pattern: Y is presented (a claim that is intended to produce fear). Therefore claim X is true (a claim that is generally, but need not be, related to Y in some manner). The Relativist Fallacy is committed when a person rejects a claim by asserting that the claim might be true for others but is not for him/her. This sort of "reasoning" has the following form: Claim X is presented. Person A asserts that X may be true for others but is not true for him/her. Therefore A is justified in rejecting X. The Appeal to Emotion is a fallacy with the following structure: Favorable emotions are associated with X. Therefore, X is true. This fallacy is committed when someone manipulates peoples' emotions in order to get them to accept a claim as being true. More formally, this sort of "reasoning" involves the substitution of various means of producing strong emotions in place of evidence for a claim. If the favorable emotions associated with X influence the person to accept X as true because they "feel good about X," then he has fallen prey to the fallacy. http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/relativist-fallacy.html