martybegan
Diamond Member
- Apr 5, 2010
- 86,730
- 36,659
- 2,300
False!False!Argumentum ad populum fallicy.Not false at all. Plenty of people agree with my stricter definition of genocide.
No, because I didn't make my statement appear to be fact. saying others share my opinion of something does not get to the level of a logical fallacy, because I am making no statement of fact.
Lol!
Nope, I am correct in this.
argumentum ad populum (Latin for "appeal to the people") is afallacious argument that concludes that aproposition is true because many or most people believe it: "If many believe so, it is so."
This type of argument is known by several names,[1] including appeal to the masses,appeal to belief, appeal to the majority,appeal to democracy, appeal to popularity,argument by consensus, consensus fallacy,authority of the many, and bandwagon fallacy(also known as a vox populi),[2] and in Latinas argumentum ad numerum ("appeal to the number"), and consensus gentium ("agreement of the clans"). It is also the basis of a number of social phenomena, including communal reinforcement and the bandwagon effect. The Chinese proverb "three men make a tiger" concerns the same idea.
Again, i did not allude to the factual nature of my opinion, I recognize there are other opinions of it as well. What I said is there are others that share my opinion of the word being limited to wholesale government mandated killing of an entire group of people purely for the sake of killing them.
But keep posting and linking to things you don't understand. That works.....