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Ad crumenam

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Ad crumenam

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.

Example:

Tesla is the best car from Earth because Elon Musk is the richest man on Earth.

Synonyms: argumentum ad crumenam, argument to the purse

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