Argumentum ad populum
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In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for "appeal to the people") is a fallacious argument that concludes that a proposition must be true because many or most people believe it, often concisely encapsulated as: "If many believe so, it is so".
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See also
- Ad hominem
- Cognitive dissonance
- Consensus reality
- Consensus theory of truth
- Conventional wisdom
- Democracy
- Fallacies
- Fundamental attribution bias
- Hurting the feelings of the Chinese people
- Social proof
- Groupthink
- List of fallacies
- Reductio ad Hitlerum
- Scientific consensus
- Three men make a tiger
- Truth by consensus
- Wisdom of the crowd
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