But I didn't make an argument! There was no "argumentum" to be "ad numerum." I didn't implore her to believe anything; I didn't even express my own opinion.
I can't help but think you just don't like the fact that most people disagree with you and are annoyed that I drew attention to it.
And I quote:
... and most people who've examined the law and the historical background have concluded that "born a citizen" means the same as "natural born citizen."
I can't help but think you just don't like the fact that most people disagree with you and are annoyed that I drew attention to it.
Of course i'm annoyed with it. It is the promulgation of a fallacious understanding of a legal point by means of a fallacious argument. (That enough people believing something makes it true.)
It is hard enough to get accuracy on this issue without people resorting to fallacious appeals to numbers, popularity, authority, and repetition. Good God people, didn't you study Logic and Fallacies in College?
Monkeys screech at spectacle, Men Reason.