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>"I am willing to treat this claim more credibly" That's a personal heuristic - a very reasonable one, but it's still an argument from authority.
by theprotocol 7y ago
>"I am willing to treat this claim more credibly"
That's a personal heuristic - a very reasonable one, but it's still an argument from authority.
- betenoire 7y agoA heuristic is a bias, not a fallacy. "All else equal, I'll try this path first". A fallacy assumes a cogent argument is being made. This is just a preference.