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I see how it could be interpreted that way. But my purpose was to credit the author and his book. Had I left the quote without attribution and claimed it as my
by apo 8y ago
I see how it could be interpreted that way. But my purpose was to credit the author and his book.
Had I left the quote without attribution and claimed it as my own, I'm sure someone would have suggested I should take a refresher on plagiarism. Ditto had I paraphrased Sagan without attribution.
If I had merely given the quote without a link or context, I'd run the risk of perpetuating false quotes.
Had /u/RandomRedditUser written the text instead of Sagan, I would have cited it in the same way.
- TeMPOraL 8y agoI'm not criticizing the way you quoted Sagan; what I'm trying to say is that there's no escape from any kind of "appeal to authority". There's too many people saying too many things that are too expensive to evaluate on their own merits; we all use heuristics to filter and rank stuff. Appeal to authority/expertise is one of those (and, as all heuristics, imperfect).