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.
• Appeal (motion) – in parliamentary procedure an appeal is a challenge of the chair's ruling.
• 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)

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.

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