Appeal to Popular Opinion

accept proposition According ad populum argument antiskeptical appeal to expert appeal to popular argument based argument from popularity argumentation scheme argumentum ad populum Aristotle audience bandwagon argument bandwagon fallacy bandwagon type basis believe bias burden of proof called Chapter characteristic cited commitments common-folks appeal conclusion context of dialogue critical discussion critical questions crowd defined deliberation dialectical argument dialectical exchange dialogue exchange emotional eristic dialogue evaluating ad populum evidence example expert opinion form of argument given Gricean maxim group G important inference inherently fallacious Inquisition irrelevant issue kind of argument knowledge logic textbooks Mark Antony ment mob appeal mob-appeal subtype mob-appeal type participants party persuasion dialogue plausible point of view pop scheme popular opinion populum appeal populum argument populum fallacy position to know problem public opinion relevant respondent rhetoric scientific seems Seneca Socrates Sophistical Refutations speaker speech standard treatment thesis type of argument type of dialogue Walton