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Yes, it is true. I said the instance wasn't a fallacy. Read my comment again. To be clear: an appeal to authority isn't always fallacious.

• jjnoakes 10y ago
  This part of what you said: "It's no longer a fallacy when the appeal to authority (argument from authority) involves an actual authority." is not true. The right thing to say would have been "It is no longer a fallacy when the authority making the claim provides enough convincing evidence to make the claim valid, with or without an authority", if that's indeed what you meant to say. But that's not what you said, and so I stand by my assertion that what you said is not true. We have the original post in this thread of interest saying (paraphrasing): "The article has no substance, so the claim is it making could be made by anyone. The article is not useful and the claim is not substantiated". Then we have a reply: "Elcomsoft is an authority on the topic so their claim should be stronger than if anyone else made it". This is where I said it looks close to an appeal to authority. But you then came in and said "when there's an actual authority there is no longer an appeal to authority". Which is not true. I mean, how can there be an appeal to authority with no authority? That's like saying there's a car accident with no car.