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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39936827 Title: Appeal to popular opinion Author: Douglas N Walton Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1999. ISBN/ISSN: 0271018186 9780271018188 0271018194 9780271018195 OCLC:39936827

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Appeal to popular opinion

Author:	Douglas N Walton
Publisher:	University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1999.
Edition/Format:	Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Walton, Douglas N. Appeal to popular opinion. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c1999 (OCoLC)653038971
Material Type:	Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Douglas N Walton Find more information about:
ISBN:	0271018186 9780271018188 0271018194 9780271018195
OCLC Number:	39936827
Description:	289 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Public and Popular Opinion -- Public Opinion Polls -- Why Do Public Opinion Polls Look Accurate? -- Push Polling -- The Tyranny of the Majority in American Democracy -- Worries of the Logic Textbooks -- Public Perceptions as Premises -- The Meaning of "Public Opinion" -- The Meaning of "Popular Opinion" -- The Difference Between Public and Popular Opinion -- The Problem with Arguments Based on Popular Opinion -- Inferences and Fallacies -- The Gore Vidal Case -- The Jury Deliberation Case -- The Golden Rule Case -- The Democratic Civilization Case -- The Falling Objects Case -- The Inquisition Case -- The Mark Antony Case -- Inflammatory Language -- How the Ad Populum Is Used to Manipulate Opinions -- Appeal to Expert Opinion -- The Standard Treatment -- Origins of the Ad Populum -- Early Modern Textbooks -- The Middle Period: 1935-1959 -- Multiplicity of Types: 1961-1968 -- Cracks in the Surface -- Broadening the Ad Populum -- The Dual Approach -- Multipliers -- The Unifying Form -- Summary of Developments -- Presumptions, Common Starting Points, and Public Judgment -- Bandwagon and Mob-Appeal Arguments -- Are Ad Populum Arguments Fallacious? -- Premise Adequacy of Dialectical Arguments -- Conflicts with Expert Opinion -- Common Starting Points -- The Status of Presumptions -- Presumptive Reasoning in Dialectical Arguments -- Popular Opinion and Common Knowledge -- Mass Opinion and Public Judgment -- The Two Faces of the Ad Populum -- The Old Dialectic -- Platonic Dialectic -- Aristotelian Dialectic -- Endoxic Premises.
Responsibility:	Douglas Walton.

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