Argumentum ad populum doesn't apply here. It is not that these people believe it. It is their specific account of how it functions. There would be no reason to state that you must wait for the cursor if it was not so.Kaivan wrote:No it doesn't. Argumentum ad populum.
If 5 people point you out at a line up as the person that broke into someone's house and there is no physical evidence that points to you, those 5 people's statements aren't evidence? I believe so...
They are stating specifically that it was you that broke in. They aren't stating something general like 'it was a man' and your being accused because you are a man.