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    Appeal to wealth


     
    Name of fallacy Appeal to wealth
    Aliases Argumentum ad crumenam
    Type Irrelevant Argument, Informal Argument
    Description Concluding that a statement is correct because the speaker is rich or that a statement is incorrect because the speaker is poor
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    Treatment Show that the wealth or poverty of the speaker is irrelevant to the evidence or logic of the argument


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