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Isn’t that inverse, not contrapositive? Here’s how I’m understanding it: > appeal to authority authority -> trust > disappeal to lack of authority not autho
by vmladenov 6y ago
Isn’t that inverse, not contrapositive? Here’s how I’m understanding it:
> appeal to authority
authority -> trust
> disappeal to lack of authority
not authority -> not trust
The contrapositive of the first proposition would be
not trust -> not authority
which is a rather different claim.
- ironmagma 6y agoTrue, the word was wrong. The point though is that for this logical fallacy, there is an equal and opposite logical fallacy. Saying authority implies truth is just as wrong as saying lack of authority implies falsehood.