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the system'. What has really happened is simply that too many people have started buying their albums so that listening to them no longer serves as a source of distinction. The real rebels therefore have to go off and find some new band to listen to that nobody else knows about in order to preserve this distinction and their sense of superiority over others."
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the idea that "Y people believe X": "Y people believe in X as true, purely because Y people believe in it, and not because of any further considerations. Therefore X must be false." While Y people can believe X to be true for fallacious reasons, X might still be true. Their motivations for believing X do not affect whether X is true or false.
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For example, everybody would love to listen to fabulous underground bands that nobody has ever head of before, but not all of us can do this. Once too many people find out about this great band, then they are no longer underground. And so we say that it's sold out or 'mainstream' or even 'co-opted by
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fallacy given that it invokes a person's contempt for the general populace or something about the general populace to persuade them that most are wrong about X. This ad populum reversal commits the same logical flaw as the original fallacy given that the idea "X is true" is inherently separate from
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may have been wrong about many or most things, she was not speaking foolishly when she spoke of the middle-aged folk of her era as "the Auschwitz generation". Not all of them had been Nazis, of course, but a great many had supported Hitler. Many had been in the Hitler Youth and served in the armed
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is not to be confused with the ad populum reversal. Chronological snobbery is the claim that if belief in both X and Y was popularly held in the past and if Y was recently proved to be untrue then X must also be untrue. That line of argument is based on a belief in historical progress and not—like
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The fallacy is similar in structure to certain other fallacies that involve a confusion between the "justification" of a belief and its "widespread acceptance" by a given group of people. When an argument uses the appeal to the beliefs of a group of experts, it takes on the form of an appeal to
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argue that correct grammar, spelling, and expressions are defined by the language's speakers, especially in languages which do not have a central governing body. According to this viewpoint, if an incorrect expression is commonly used, it becomes correct. In contrast,
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Appeals to popularity are common in commercial advertising that portrays products as desirable because they are used by many people or associated with popular sentiments instead of communicating the merits of the products themselves.
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forces, fighting Nazi wars of conquest. A minority had ineffectively resisted Nazism but, as a whole, it was a generation coping with an extraordinary burden of guilt and shame
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Appeals to public opinion are valid in situations where consensus is the determining factor for the validity of a statement, such as linguistic usage and definitions of words.
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authority; if the appeal relates to the beliefs of a group of respected elders or the members of one's community over a long time, then it takes on the form of an
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that have well-established names and mathematical notations due to their significance in mathematics and other scientific fields.
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differently from an appeal to popular opinion itself, as an attempt to rouse the "emotions and enthusiasms of the multitude".
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argues that appeals to popular opinion can be logically valid in some cases, such as in political dialogue within a
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In some circumstances, a person may argue that the fact that Y people believe X to be true implies that X is
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which is based on claiming a truth or affirming something is good or correct because many people think so.
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and that probably means that they didn't have nearly as much talent as <Y band>, which didn't
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There is no formal definition of what makes a function a special function; instead, the term
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argument, that something that is unpopular must be flawed, is also a form of this fallacy.
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believe that incorrect expressions are incorrect regardless of how many people use them.
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is defined by consensus. Functions generally considered to be special functions include
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drinking milk and water like everyone else, or will you wake up and drink my product?"
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Y=most people, a given quantity of people, people of a particular demographic.
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the ad populum reversal is—on whether or not X and/or Y is currently popular.
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Most people believe A and B are both true. B is false. Thus, A is false.
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is imperialistic and totalitarian? Clearly, it must not be."
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Index

Appeal to the People
Versus populum
argumentation theory
Latin
fallacious argument
informal fallacy
fallacy of relevance
argument from authority
inverse
appeal to tradition
Irving Copi
Douglas N. Walton
democracy
appeal to spite
mindless conformist drone
The Beatles
sell out
German people
Auschwitz
generation
Soviet Union
method actors
chronological snobbery
Linguistic descriptivists
linguistic prescriptivists
Special functions
mathematical functions
logarithms
trigonometric functions
Bessel functions

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