Ah, you misunderstand.
The fallacy is to do purely with the illogic of the claim that popularity is
the sole arbiter.
Matters of taste are a different thing.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion!"
"Possibly, and possibly not, but please don't change the subject!"
I know, it's a very fine line, but it is there.
Andrew Fildes
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On 31/01/2013, at 5:43 PM, Moose wrote:
> On 1/30/2013 10:05 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
>> It's the Democratic Fallacy - just because most people think it's good, that
>> doesn't make it good.
>> Amazing how many people don't understand that.
>
> Oh, My!
>
> Gotta disagree. Taste is entirely arbitrary, a product of social custom,
> norms, opinion. There is indeed often a
> difference between the then current, largely inherited, taste of the elite(s)
> and that of the hoi polloi. But neither is
> an absolute.
>
> Nor does/can an absolute exist, which says one thing, sound, etc. is somehow
> inherently of greater value than another.
>
> It is entirely possibly to make a correct statement that I prefer one thing
> over another, as long as that value
> judgement is understood to be mine, or that of my family, tribe, class, etc.
> etc.
>
> Same fallacy that underlies so much religious dogma and practice, the idea
> that who or whatever created everything
> prefers some aspects of that creation over others, and bothers to reward or
> punish some parts on the basis of what they
> are or do.
>
> At least believers in God or some other higher being/force, have an
> apparently logical basis for their opinions, the
> putative statements of their God. Those who do not believe in a supreme
> being, power, whatever, have no basis whatsoever
> for considering their tastes absolute. Other than egotism, personal or
> collective, of course. :-)
>
> I have strong tastes and opinions, but don't believe them to be absolute.
>
> Absolutely Not Moose
>
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