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Appeals to authority aren't necessarily fallacious, if the authority being cited is actually an authority.
by rosser 9y ago
Appeals to authority aren't necessarily fallacious, if the authority being cited is actually an authority.
- benbreen 9y agoThanks for pointing this out. I appreciate the sentiment behind critiquing a blind reliance on authority but lately online I've seen a lot of knee jerk rejections of any authority which I find counter-productive at best. Surely we can agree that our presence on an online discussion forum doesn't obviate the fact that some people who have spent years professionally researching a topic are likely to have a stronger claim to knowing about it than those who haven't.