Prescriptive and Descriptive Conclusions:
When you label an argument as an appeal to emotion, then you are on the path to determine whether or not the argument is good or bad. The arguments try and persuade one of their emotions as well. There are two different arguments to decipher when you are looking at appeal to emotion, which is prescriptive and descriptive.
When one uses a prescriptive conclusion with appeal to emotion, the argument can be either be good or it can be bad. When one is alert to the use of emotion being presented in an argument, then one can analyze the premises more easily. The purpose of a prescriptive argument is to try and convince a person that they should do something.
A descriptive conclusion is bad if the appeal can’t be removed as a premise. It is also known as “wishful thinking” in an argument and we cannot be controlled by our emotions.
I really liked the way you described the two terms. An example would have been nice, but your description was pretty clear to me where it wasnt necessary. Prescriptive conclusion is another premise to the argument that can help persuade people, but it becomes descriptive if the whole argument is based off the appeal to emotion
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