{"id":94,"date":"2015-12-14T11:50:29","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T11:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falacias.escepticos.es\/?page_id=94"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:20:45","slug":"argumento-ad-populum","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/argumento-ad-populum\/","title":{"rendered":"Argumentum ad populum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A million flies can\u2019t be wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/14eng.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-430\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-744 size-full\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/14eng.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"oculto\" style=\"visibility: hidden; display: none;\">\n<p id=\"p1\">https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/14eng.gif<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<button onclick=\"copiarAlPortapapeles('p1')\">Click here to copy the image for your social network<\/button><\/p>\n<p>Source, <a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Argumento_ad_populum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\nAn argumentum ad populum, or populist sophism, is a fallacy that replies with an argument relating to people\u2019s opinion instead of rebating the argument itself.<br \/>\nThey tend to be used in more or less populist discourses, and in daily arguments too. It is also used in politics and by the media, even though it is not as powerful as the argumentum ad hominem. It gets stronger when it comes with a survey backing the false claim. In spite of everything it is quite subtle, and for ears untrained in reasoning it could go unnoticed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>examples<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cIt is not just me who says that: everybody does\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cWhy would you do that? Because everybody did\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cMost people think as I do\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cEverybody knows this is like that\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lasmemoriasdecharles.blogspot.com.es\/2013\/08\/todo-el-mundo-lo-hace-la-falacia-ad.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source of examples<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To refute it<\/strong><br \/>\nThe very well known sentence about the flies is, without question, quite convincing. Besides, it points the way: it insists on the fact that the popularity of an idea doesn\u2019t necessarily relate to its veracity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whenever the source is not referenced, both definitions and examples have been extracted from a translation of Jaime Wilson jwilson@bytecr.com based on<em> Stephen\u2019s Guide to the Logical Fallacies<\/em>. Copyright 1995-1998 Stephen Downes. Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These texts have been modified by Miguel A. Lerma and now by us <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to adapt them -and those taken from Wikipedia- to our format.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A million flies can\u2019t be wrong https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/14eng.gif Click here to copy the image for your social network Source, wikipedia An argumentum ad populum, or populist sophism, is a fallacy that replies with an argument relating to people\u2019s opinion instead of rebating the argument itself. They tend to be used in more or less populist discourses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1076,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions\/1076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}