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CONSENSUS<\/span><\/h1>\n

1. Consensus as agreement<\/span><\/h2>\n

See Agreement<\/a>; Persuasion<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

2 Argument from consensus<\/span><\/h2>\n

The label argument from consensus<\/em>, appeal to consensus<\/em>, covers a family of arguments claiming that a belief is true or that things must be done in such and such a way on the basis that everyone thinks or does so, and that other proposals should be rejected.<\/p>\n

We have always thought, wished, done … so; so, buy (please, do…) so.
\nEverybody loves so-and-so<\/em> product.
\nEverybody puts so-and-so<\/em> ketchup on their burgers!<\/p>\n

It implies that by disregarding the existing consensus, the proponent of a new action or a new idea, that is the opponent of the consensus, risks being excluded from that community, see burden of proof<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The universal consensus<\/em> argument<\/strong> claims that \u201call people in all times have thought this way things have always been done this way<\/em>\u201d.
\nThe existence of God has been argued on the basis of the universal consensus argument.<\/p>\n

The argument from <\/strong>the relative (partial) consensus<\/em> includes the argument from majority<\/em>, the argument from number<\/em> (Latin ad numerum<\/em>; numerus<\/em>, \u201cnumber\u201d) and related expressions:<\/p>\n

The majority \/ many people … think, wish, do … X.<\/span>
\nThree million Syldavians have already adopted it!<\/span>
\nMy book is selling better than yours.<\/span>
\nHe is a famous actor.<\/span><\/p>\n

Common Sense<\/strong> \u2014 The argument of consensus is the kind of authority generously granted to traditional wisdom<\/em> or to common sense<\/em>, S. Authority<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I know that all true Syldavians agree with this decision<\/span>
\nOnly the extremes attack me, all people of common sense will agree with me.<\/span><\/p>\n

The populist argument<\/em> is based on a real or supposed consensus among (or attributed to) the people, see Ad Populum<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bandwagon<\/em><\/strong> argument and fallacy<\/strong> \u2014 The bandwagon argument is a special case of the consensus argument. The bandwagon is the decorated chariot that leads the orchestra through town, the bandwagon argument adds joy and enthusiasm to the dry consensus argument. To get on the bandwagon is to follow the popular movement, to participate in a popular \u201cemotion\u201d in the etymological sense of \u201ca public upheaval\u201d. Joining a party to have fun and sing along should not be condemned as systematically fallacious; but, from the perspective of any opposing party, climbing on the bandwagon can be seen as fallacious, as a follow-the-group or follow-my-leader attitude, sheepish behavior, as uncritically adopting the views of the most vocal or visible group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CONSENSUS 1. Consensus as agreement See Agreement; Persuasion 2 Argument from consensus The label argument from consensus, appeal to consensus, covers a family of arguments claiming that a belief is true or that things must be done in such and such a way on the basis that everyone thinks or does so, and that other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4807"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13881,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4807\/revisions\/13881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icar.cnrs.fr\/dicoplantin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}