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==== Also called ====
* Argumentum ad populum ("appeal to the people")
* [http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-common-practice.html Appeal to Common Practice]
* [[Quality by Popular Vote]]
* Any relevant population figure (sixty million Frenchmen, a billion Chinese, etc.)
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* "Gold is valuable because many people pay for it."
* ""Trope" is a word meaning "storytelling device", because that's how most people use it."
* "Most people would agree that is improper to talk in the cinema during a movie, so don't do it."
These concepts, like economical value, linguistic meaning, or etiquette, are things that only exist because a large number of us believe that they exist. If everyone would believe that gold is worthless, [[Worthless Yellow Rocks|its value would disappear]] (this happens at the beginning of the novel ''Galapagos'').
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