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To: Lazamataz; Kevin Curry; Texasforever; Miss Marple; Howlin; ArneFufkin; Grampa Dave; Mo1; ...
"Your posts are so filled with invective, bile, and complete mistatements that I see no meaningful benefit to any interchange with you whatsoever."

Actually Laz, I think Kevin was spot on, you have at least 300 post on this thread alone and Kevin made a very fitting summary of your contributions. But I guess we could always take a vote

2,113 posted on 06/24/2002 12:16:42 PM PDT by MJY1288
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To: MJY1288
HAH! A vote! LOL!

Fallacy: Appeal to Popularity (argumentum ad populum)

Definition: A proposition is held to be true because it is widely held to be true or is held to be true by some sector of the population.

This fallacy is sometimes also called the "Appeal to Emotion" because emotional appeals often sway the population as a whole.

Examples:
(i) If you were beautiful, you could live like this, so buy Buty-EZ and become beautiful. (Here, the appeal is to the "beautiful people".)
(ii) Polls suggest that the Liberals will form a majority government, so you may as well vote for them.
(iii) Lots of my friends say that Kevin Curry is right when he spewed a lot of invective, bile, and complete mistatements about Lazamataz, so it must be true.

References: Copi and Cohen: 103, Davis: 62


2,115 posted on 06/24/2002 12:24:40 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: MJY1288; Kevin Curry; Lazamataz
IMO, Kevin's post could have been made less crudely, but I agree with the general premises he stated.
2,116 posted on 06/24/2002 12:26:35 PM PDT by Amelia
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Oh Good Grief ... is this thread STILL going .. will it ever end ??

Some how I doubt it ..

2,121 posted on 06/24/2002 12:32:12 PM PDT by Mo1
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