Also known as appeal to the people, appeal to the masses, appeal to belief, appeal to the majority, appeal to democracy, appeal to popularity, argument by consensus,
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In argumentation theory, an argumentum ad populum (Latin for 'appeal to the people') is an informal fallacy that asserts a claim is true, good, or correct because many people allegedly think so.
Alternative names
fallacy of claiming that a proposition must be true because many or most people believe it
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Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).