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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: Lazamataz
WOW, could you go back and do the same for all of your invectice, bile and complete mistatements, not to mention your personal attacks. But in your eyes you're perfect, in my eyes you're an __________fill in the blank (I would get banned if I did)

Can anyone guess what I was implying in this statement?

2,122 posted on 06/24/2002 12:32:34 PM PDT by MJY1288
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