(March 19, 2013 at 11:24 pm)Rhythm Wrote:(March 19, 2013 at 11:20 pm)jstrodel Wrote: A testimony is not ad populum. If you have 10 witnesses to a murder to appeal to the quantity would not be ad populum. That is ridiculous.If you had ten witnesses to a murder but no other evidence...you'd have a hard time convicting. If you appeal to the number of people who believe in something that they then present personal testimony of (or you simply assert that they do) as though this were indicative of the accuracy of the testimony..yes, it is an ad pop - a textbook example, in fact.
You think they would hear the 10 people and then the defense would say "that is an argument ad populum"?
