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Ahh, but where's the dividing line? Because appeal to data is objective, but appeal to a trendline is going to depend on how that trendline is established.
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I'd say a graph is the same kind of thing as a diagram in geometry, an aid to understanding but not an argument in itself. I don't know where Aristotle would classify just pointing at a diagram though. Not logos, geometers in his day knew a diagram wasn't a proof already.