I am sorry to be a pedant but you people are using the term appeal to
authority to mean the opposite of what it should mean. I have mentioned
this before. Here's the definition:
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-authority.html
Also Known as: Fallacious Appeal to Authority,
I am sorry to be a pedant but you people are using the term appeal to
authority to mean the opposite of what it should mean. I have mentioned
this before. Here's the definition:
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/appeal-to-authority.html
Also Known as: Fallacious Appeal to Authority,
Mauro Lacy ma...@lacy.com.ar wrote:
You're right. Claiming that something must be right because some authority
said so, if not fallacious per se(that is, if not a false statement), is
an appeal to authority, plain and simple.
Not plain, and not so simple. Technically, it is only a so-called
An appeal to authority, regardless the credentials of the authority,
can only affect one's judgement of the probability of truth. It is
thus non-Aristotelian. It is a sales tool. It is not a logical
argument, and thus can not be either valid or invalid, as the
application of modus
Horace Heffner wrote:
An appeal to authority, regardless the credentials of the authority,
can only affect one's judgement of the /probability/ of truth. It is
thus non-Aristotelian. It is a sales tool. It is not a logical
argument, and thus can not be either valid or invalid, as the
On Nov 23, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Horace Heffner wrote:
An appeal to authority, regardless the credentials of the
authority, can only affect one's judgement of the probability of
truth. It is thus non-Aristotelian. It is a sales tool. It is
not a logical argument, and
On 11/23/2011 06:48 PM, Horace Heffner wrote:
An appeal to authority, regardless the credentials of the authority,
can only affect one's judgement of the probability of truth. It is
thus non-Aristotelian. It is a sales tool. It is not a logical
That's an important distinction, and
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