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argumentum ad populum

fallacy of claiming that a proposition must be true because many or most people believe it
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argumentum ad populum

Summary

argumentum ad populum ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (108 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • argumentum ad populum's GND ID is recorded as 4613414-1[2].
  • argumentum ad populum's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh98006204[3].
  • argumentum ad populum's subclass of is recorded as informal fallacy[4].
  • argumentum ad populum's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/037k_7[5].
  • argumentum ad populum's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/argumentum-ad-populum[6].
  • argumentum ad populum's FAST ID is recorded as 811530[7].
  • argumentum ad populum's Quora topic ID is recorded as Argumentum-Ad-Populum[8].
  • argumentum ad populum's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779751656[9].
  • argumentum ad populum's TV Tropes ID is recorded as Main/AppealToPopularity[10].
  • argumentum ad populum's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Argumentum_ad_populum[11].
  • argumentum ad populum's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007546795205171[12].
  • argumentum ad populum's Yale LUX ID is recorded as concept/fbe4fd15-4f1f-47e7-8058-8e1a77026edf[13].

Why It Matters

argumentum ad populum ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (108 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  7. [8] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . National Library of Israel. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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