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What is an ad populum fallacy?

attacking a person instead of their ideas
distracting the audience by including unimportant information
arguing that something is true because many people believe it
exaggerating someone's claim to make them sound unreasonable

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Answer: its c {:

Explanation: i did it

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Answer:

c) arguing that something is true because many people believe it.

Step-by-step explanation:

To the People's Speech "Argumentum ad Populum" The fallacy of appealing to the majority holds that if many people think something, it must be true.

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