Content Fallacies

As stated on page 201 of the Epstein text, the content fallacy, "Bad appeal to common belief" is " If almost everyone else (in this group) believes it or does it, then it is true (good to do)." This, in my opinion, is generally known as a "bandwagon." A bandwagon fallacy is similiar to the content fallacy because it is when everyone thinks or acts a certain way just because everyone else does it. As I searched for additional information for "Bad appeal to common belief" on google, it states that "If something is believed to be true by a lot of people then it must be true" (http://changingminds.org/disciplines/argument/fallacies/common_belief.htm). When a person is unsure about something, they decide to ask other people, and tend to believe in the same thing.

One real-world example that I have heard in the past is "The Giants are going to win the World Series." This statement was assumed by many people because the Giants had won the first out of seven games for the World Championship game. A lot of people believed this because hundreds of Giants fanatics believed this.