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You appear to be deliberately misinterpreting the point I made. You made a claim to not buying arguments made from authority and I pointed out that you do buy
by skh 8y ago
You appear to be deliberately misinterpreting the point I made. You made a claim to not buying arguments made from authority and I pointed out that you do buy some arguments made from authority. You do so every time you listen to your doctor's advice regarding your healh. Your claim about not buying arguments made from authority is false.
Your understanding of the argumentative fallacy of the false appeal to authority is false. Furthermore your conclusion about the point I made is false.
Consider this. Experts sometimes get things wrong. Their consensus opinions though are the best we can go by since they have, by definition, the most knowledge on a particular subject. So non experts are left with the cruel reality that even though expert opinions are the best available on a given subject that opinion could still be wrong. In any event it is not an argumentative fallacy to cite experts and that is what I said.
- DoctorOetker 8y agoso this is a flagged comment near the top, from the half I can read I can only assume I too would disagree with the poster, but is it really necessary to "protect" me from this information? To the extent that that it gets many downvotes (greyed out) it seems the audience does not need protection, so why censor? I probably would prefer the comment to just state "glagged" but in a way that I can click it to reveal the flagged message...
- eropple 8y agoYou can turn on showdead in your profile to see flagged posts. It's not a conspiracy.
- DoctorOetker 8y agothanks for pointing this out, this is not evident on its own... many discussion platforms have some form of censorship so it is not unnatural to assume an unclickable "flagged" to be censored.
- pokemongoaway 8y agoYou're the one purposefully misinterpreting. He obviously implied that just because an argument is from a climate science authority, it does not mean one should believe it. Same with war, nutrition, pharmaceuticals. You're just cherry picking which authorities are good and which ones are bad. Every time you've applied logical fallacies, they have been done so incorrectly. Your original comment attacked him for not having the proper credentials... You baited this, not him.