Logical Fallacy Ad Populum

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You make some very strong points pertaining to logical fallacy. I especially enjoy the description you gave of the logical fallacy ad populum. Additionally, since I began college and started writing, which is not my strongest skill by any means, I have gone back to look at some of my research papers, and found a ton of logical fallacies in my writings without even having any coherency of what a logical fallacy was at that time, yet moving ahead with my future writings, I've become aware of the logical fallacies and find them helpful in persuading my readers to side with my analysis of whatever paper I'm writing at that time. In my essay of confronting inequality I found multiple fallacies in the readings for instance on page 562 the cost of

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