Appeal To Wealth
An ''argumentum ad crumenam'' logical argument, argument, also known as an argument to the purse, is the informal fallacy of concluding that a statement is correct because the speaker is rich (or that a statement is incorrect because the speaker is poor). The opposite is the ''argumentum ad lazarum''. Examples: *"If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" *"This new law is a good idea. Most of the people against it are riff-raff who make less than $20,000 a year." *"Warren Buffett is hosting a seminar. This seminar is better than others, because Warren Buffett is richer than most people." References

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Logical Argument
An argument is a statement or group of statements called premises intended to determine the degree of truth or acceptability of another statement called conclusion. Arguments can be studied from three main perspectives: the logical, the dialectical and the rhetorical perspective. In logic, an argument is usually expressed not in natural language but in a symbolic formal language, and it can be defined as any group of propositions of which one is claimed to follow from the others through deductively valid inferences that preserve truth from the premises to the conclusion. This logical perspective on argument is relevant for scientific fields such as mathematics and computer science. Logic is the study of the forms of reasoning in arguments and the development of standards and criteria to evaluate arguments. Deductive arguments can be valid, and the valid ones can be sound: in a valid argument, premisses necessitate the conclusion, even if one or more of the premises is false ...
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