AD POPULUM FALLACIES

Now that we know what ad hominem fallacies are. Lets take a brief on Ad populum Fallacies. Ad populum fallacies attempt to persuade someone of somthing by appealing to their emotions or prejudices, rather than by giving the reasons that support the truth or falsity of the view.

there are many types of fallacies under this, i will just give a brief definition and an example for each.

1. Ad populum appeal to force:- it is an attempt ot persuafe someone of somthing by using force or threat of violence.

Egg: Son! You should go to class regularly or else you cant play the PS3. i am goin to take it from you.

here farther is trying to persuade his son to go classes regulary by using threat.

2. Ad populum appeal to pity:- This is an attempt to persuade someone of something by evoking pity or sympathy with their situation.

Egg: You cant Expell John from the University. He is the Only son of the Poor Farmer and their dreams for him is sky high. think what will they feel if they are to know that you expelles their only son from the University.

here the writter is trying to persuade not to expelle john usin pity as a reason. this is not a good way of reasoning and is not acceptable.

3. Ad populum appeal to shame:- It is an attempt to persuade someone of something by embarrasing or making him or her feel unconfortable about being wrong.

Egg: You should not joing X&Y foot ball club. It is a shame that they were the bigest looser during the last season.

here the reader is trying to make the reader shamefull to joing the club rather than making good reasons.

4. Ad populum appeal to vanity:- It is an attempt to persuade someone of somthing by using irrelevent flirtering words to the truth of an idea or validity of a position.

Egg: You are so handsome... Look at that muscles of your body.. I like you so much. Can you take mee to the Avatar movie this weekend.

Here a girl is trying to persuade a guy, to take her to the movies just by flirtering him rather than giving any reason why he should take her to movie.

5. Ad populum appeal to authority:- here it tries to persuade people just by refering to other people even if they are not relevent to the topic.

Egg. use should stop investing in stock exchange market.. my foot ball coach said that there will be a collapse in stock market in a near future.

the writer is trying to persuade the reader by refering to his foot ball coach who is not relevent to the topic at all.

6. Ad pupulum appeal to indirect sonsequences:- it attempts to persuade others by using irrelevent harmfull consequence. for example if somthin heppens this and that will happen.

Egg; If you dont go to classes regulary you will fail the exam. and when you fai examp you will have to leave the school and when you leave the school withou proper education you cant get a job and you will end up on the road without even a wife.

this is a good example of using consequenses wchich is not even prooved.

7. Ad pupulum appeal to false dilemma:- This attempts to persuade people by saying that there is no much option and one option is realy horrible and hides evry other options available.

Egg: you shoould stay in hostel or else you will have to forget on University education as there is no other place near by.

Trying to persuade the person to stay in hostel by hiding other all the other optios available to him.

8. Ad pupulum appeal to spite:- tries to make somthin right becouse somthin that someone did is wrong.

Egg: It's not bad for you to date his girl friend, after all he used to date your girl friend last year so that you had to break up with her.

Thats All for today and I will explain the following fallecies very soon...

Thank you..

Ad populum appeal to common belief

Ad populum appeal to common practice

Ad populum appeal to tradition