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"Here is why the consensus is _______" is not argument by authority, correct. "The ________ theory/hypothesis is fringe, the consensus is ________" is argument
by rpedela 6y ago
"Here is why the consensus is _______" is not argument by authority, correct.
"The ________ theory/hypothesis is fringe, the consensus is ________" is argument by authority.
See the difference? Phrasing matters in this case. All too often it is phrased the second way. I don't expect someone to literally enumerate all the evidence for or against something, but there is a middle ground between that and just saying "well consensus is ______".
- scott_s 6y ago> "The ________ theory/hypothesis is fringe, the consensus is ________" is argument by authority. That is not an argument, so it can't be "argument by authority." It is a framing.