Scare Tactics, Arguments that Appeal to Fear and Threats

Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Fear Appeal Arguments. 2. Ad Baculum in the Logic Textbooks. 3. Ad Baculum in Argumentation Today. 4. The Speech Act of Making a Threat. 5. The New Theory of the Underlying Structure of Fear and Threat Appeal Arguments. 6. Questions of Classification. 7. Evaluation of Cases. Bibliography.