(argumentum ad populum)"; //Appeal to Popularity<br>(<i>argumentum ad populum</i>) include "header.inc"; ?> Definition: Examples:
  1. If you were beautiful, you could live like this, so buy Buty-EZ and become beautiful. (Here, the appeal is to the "beautiful people".)
  2. Polls suggest that the Liberals will form a majority government, so you may as well vote for them.
  3. Everyone knows that the Earth is flat, so why do you persist in your outlandish claims?
References: 26 May 1995