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A close relative/variant of the appeal to tradition is the argument from inertia or appeal to inertia (sometimes called "Stay the Course"), which states a mistaken status quo, potentially related to existing customs be maintained for its own sake, usually because making a change would require admission of fault in the mistake or because correcting the mistake would require extraordinary effort ...
Appeal to poverty (argumentum ad Lazarum) – supporting a conclusion because the arguer is poor (or refuting because the arguer is wealthy). (Opposite of appeal to wealth.) [89] Appeal to tradition (argumentum ad antiquitatem) – a conclusion supported solely because it has long been held to be true. [90]
Commonly used in the names of logical arguments and fallacies, preceding phrases such as a silentio (by silence), ad antiquitatem (to antiquity), ad baculum (to the stick), ad captandum (to capturing), ad consequentiam (to the consequence), ad crumenam (to the purse), ad feminam (to the woman), ad hominem (to the person), ad ignorantiam (to ...
A dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid; Ad antiquitatem; Ad hominem; Ad infinitum; Ad nauseam; Ad personam; Argumentum a fortiori; Argumentum ad antiquitatem; Argumentum ad baculum; Argumentum ad captandum; Argumentum ad consequentiam; Argumentum ad crumenam; Argumentum ad ignorantiam; Argumentum ad lapidem; Argumentum ad lazarum ...
An example of an invention of tradition is the rebuilding of the Palace of Westminster (location of the British Parliament) ... (or argumentum ad antiquitatem), ...
National Food Stores magazine vintage ad, 1950s, blue and black coloring on yellowed white paper ... The history of this grocery store company is something of an example of the changes that took ...
Argumentum ad antiquitatem (appeal to tradition: arguing that the antiquity or tradition is proof of a propositions validity) Argumentum ad baculum (prevailing by threat of force baculum is, literally, "rod" or "staff" --- and imbecile is one with no staff to stand on) Argumentum ad consequentiae (Appeal to consequences)
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