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An argumentum ad crumenam argument, also known as an argument to the purse, is the informal fallacy of drawing conclusions based on the speaker's financial status.^[1] The term generally refers to the assumption that having wealth is indicative of insight or virtue, and that poverty denotes the opposite.^[1]

The opposite is the argumentum ad lazarum.

Examples:

"If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"
"This new law is a good idea. Most of the people against it are riff-raff who make less than $20,000 a year."
"Warren Buffett is hosting a seminar. This seminar is better than others, because Warren Buffett is richer than most people."

References

^ ^a ^b Fellmeth, Aaron X.; Horwitz, Maurice (2021). "Argumentum ad crumenam". Guide to Latin in International Law. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780197583104.001.0001/acref-9780197583104-e-257. ISBN 9780197583104.

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[:0-1] Fellmeth, Aaron X.; Horwitz, Maurice (2021). "Argumentum ad crumenam". Guide to Latin in International Law. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780197583104.001.0001/acref-9780197583104-e-257. ISBN 9780197583104.

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-An '''''argumentum ad crumenam''''' [[logical argument|argument]], also known as '''an argument to the purse''', is 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).
+An '''''argumentum ad crumenam''''' [[logical argument|argument]], also known as '''an argument to the purse''', is the [[informal fallacy]] of drawing conclusions based on the speaker's financial status.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Fellmeth |first=Aaron X. |title=Guide to Latin in International Law |last2=Horwitz |first2=Maurice |date=2021 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=9780197583104 |chapter=Argumentum ad crumenam |doi=10.1093/acref/9780197583104.001.0001/acref-9780197583104-e-257}}</ref> The term generally refers to the assumption that having wealth is indicative of insight or virtue, and that poverty denotes the opposite.<ref name=":0" />
 The opposite is the ''[[argumentum ad lazarum]]''.
+Examples:
-==Usage==
+*"If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?"
+*"This new law is a good idea. Most of the people against it are riff-raff who make less than $20,000 a year."
-:''If you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich?''
+*"[[Warren Buffett]] is hosting a seminar. This seminar is better than others, because Warren Buffett is richer than most people."
-:''This new law is a good idea. Most of the people against it are riff-raff who make less than $20,000 a year.''
-:''[[Warren Buffett]] is hosting a seminar. This seminar is better than others, because Warren Buffett is richer than most people.''
-From [[Tristram Shandy]]:<ref>[[Laurence Sterne]]. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman. Everyman's library: New York, 1991.</ref> "Then, added my father, making use of the argument ''Ad Crumenam'', 'I will lay twenty guineas to a single crown-piece, (which will serve to give away to ''Obadiah'' when he gets back) that this same ''Stevinus'' was some engineer or other, or has wrote something or other, either directly or indirectly, upon the science of fortification.'" It must be noted that this is a deliberately misleading use of the term Ad Crumenam, to be compared with other examples of Sterne's humorous (mis)use of Latin names for types of argument; e.g., the narrator Tristram's claim that he has invented the term 'Argumentum ad Verecundiam' (an argument from authority) to describe his uncle Toby's practice, when confronted with something he does not understand, of "whistling half a dozen bars of the 'Lillabullero'".
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-*[http://education.gsu.edu/spehar/FOCUS/EdPsy/misc/Fallacies.htm Georgia State University]
-*[http://www.philosophicalsociety.com/Logical%20Fallacies.htm Philosophical Society - logical fallacies]
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