In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for 'appeal to the people') is a fallacious argument which is based on claiming a truth or affirming...
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Ad hominem (Latin for 'to the person'), short for argumentum ad hominem, refers to several types of arguments that are usually fallacious. Often currently...
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conversation to an ad nauseam state in order to then assert one's position as correct due to it not having been contradicted is also called argumentum ad infinitum...
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Argument from fallacy (redirect from Argumentum ad logicam)
its conclusion must be false. It is also called argument to logic (argumentum ad logicam), the fallacy fallacy, the fallacist's fallacy, and the bad...
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Appeal to tradition (redirect from Argumentum ad antiquitatem)
Appeal to tradition (also known as argumentum ad antiquitatem or argumentum ad antiquitam, appeal to antiquity, or appeal to common practice) is a claim...
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Argumentum ad baculum (Latin for "argument to the cudgel" or "appeal to the stick") is a type of argument made when one attempts to appeal to force to...
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maintained the support of the people of Rome. Appeal to emotion Argumentum ad populum Captatio benevolentiae For the children (politics) Glittering generality...
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Association fallacy (redirect from Argumentum ad odium)
association or an appeal to spite (Latin: argumentum ad odium). Guilt by association can be a component of ad hominem arguments which attack the speaker...
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Reductio ad absurdum. The argumentum variant takes its form from the names of many classic fallacies such as argumentum ad hominem. The ad Nazium variant...
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Appeal to fear (redirect from Argumentum ad metam)
An appeal to fear (also called argumentum ad metum or argumentum in terrorem) is a fallacy in which a person attempts to create support for an idea by...
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Argumentum ad lazarum or appeal to poverty is the informal fallacy of thinking a conclusion is correct solely because the speaker is poor, or it is incorrect...
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Argument from ignorance (redirect from Argumentum ad ignorantium)
Argument from ignorance (Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam), or appeal to ignorance, is an informal fallacy where something is claimed to be true or false...
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Appeal to pity (redirect from Argumentum ad misericordiam)
An appeal to pity (also called argumentum ad misericordiam) is a fallacy in which someone improperly appeals to pity or similar feelings like empathy...
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An argumentum ad crumenam argument, also known as an argument to the purse, is the informal fallacy of drawing conclusions based on the speaker's financial...
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made through coercion or threats of force to support position. Argumentum ad populum (appeal to widespread belief, bandwagon argument, appeal to the...
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argumentum ad populum. This fallacy appeals to emotion instead to logic of the audience aiming to manipulate them to win an argument. All ad populum fallacies...
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Appeal to the stone (redirect from Argumentum Ad Lapidem)
Appeal to the stone, also known as argumentum ad lapidem, is a logical fallacy that dismisses an argument as untrue or absurd. The dismissal is made by...
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Parapsychology Synchronicity Related Anomalistics Argument from ignorance Argumentum ad populum Bandwagon effect Begging the question Cognitive dissonance Communal...
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Appeal to novelty (redirect from Argumentum ad novitatem)
The appeal to novelty (also called appeal to modernity or argumentum ad novitatem) is a logical fallacy in which one prematurely claims that an idea or...
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Argument from authority (redirect from Argumentum ad verecundiam)
who is speaking, such as also in the ad hominem fallacy. For this argument, Locke coined the term argumentum ad verecundiam (appeal to shamefacedness/modesty)...
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which appeared between 1010 and 1027 AD, and may have been authored by Gerbert of Aurillac. Ptolemy's second century AD Tetrabiblos was translated into Latin...
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Parapsychology Synchronicity Related Anomalistics Argument from ignorance Argumentum ad populum Bandwagon effect Begging the question Cognitive dissonance Communal...
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Argument to moderation (redirect from Argumentum ad temperantiam)
Argument to moderation (Latin: argumentum ad temperantiam)—also known as the false compromise, argument from middle ground, fallacy of gray, middle ground...
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air". The example cited was a 15 December 2018 Irish digital media company ad falsely claiming that two thirds of people wanted Santa to be either female...
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Parapsychology Synchronicity Related Anomalistics Argument from ignorance Argumentum ad populum Bandwagon effect Begging the question Cognitive dissonance Communal...
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Parapsychology Synchronicity Related Anomalistics Argument from ignorance Argumentum ad populum Bandwagon effect Begging the question Cognitive dissonance Communal...
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Arguments Ad nauseam Sealioning Argument from anecdote Argument from silence Argument to moderation Argumentum ad populum Cliché The Four Great Errors...
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Parapsychology Synchronicity Related Anomalistics Argument from ignorance Argumentum ad populum Bandwagon effect Begging the question Cognitive dissonance Communal...
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Arguments Ad nauseam Sealioning Argument from anecdote Argument from silence Argument to moderation Argumentum ad populum Cliché The Four Great Errors...
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is related to communal reinforcement or the fallacy of argumentum ad populum and argumentum ad nauseam. The proverb came from the story of an alleged...
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