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Contraposition Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary

appeal to

What does this sentence mean?

They needed to appeal to his sense of justice.
  

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They were to rely on his awareness and appreciation of justice as basis for a needed appeal.

  • They were to rely on his awareness and appreciation of justice as basis for a needed appeal.
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They were to rely on his awareness and appreciation of justice as basis for a needed appeal.
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contrapositionThey needed to appeal to his sense of justice.
Assuming he has an innate sense of justice, they needed to find a way to use that sense to persuade him to do what they wanted.

They appealed to his love of animals to persuade him to take the lost dog into his home.

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