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Exactly, there's another form of it also that I find equally off putting, .eg. "well every boolean algebra must be isomorphic to a field of sets because Marshal
by bitdiddle 17y ago
Exactly, there's another form of it also that I find equally off putting, .eg. "well every boolean algebra must be isomorphic to a field of sets because Marshall Stone thinks so.....". In this case it's true but the argument is hardly convincing.
- KirinDave 17y agoThat's called "Argument from Authority" (latin: argumentum ad verecundiam). It's not exactly isomorphic to the Ad Hominem fallacy, but it's close.