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You are mistaken. An appeal to authority is any logical argument that relies significantly upon the authority of the person making that argument as support for
by than3 3y ago
You are mistaken.
An appeal to authority is any logical argument that relies significantly upon the authority of the person making that argument as support for that argument. It then becomes circular and flawed.
If you were to replace the person who is actually speaking with anyone else, and look at the same argument and its support, and it doesn't hold up, that's an appeal to authority.
It doesn't matter who the authority is. Just that there was an authority used to support a significantly unsupported argument
- munificent 3y agoYou are mistaken, and I will argue my claim by deferring to Wikipedia, which is an authority on fallacies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
- peteradio 3y agoFirst sentence: > An argument from authority (argumentum ab auctoritate), also called an appeal to authority, or argumentum ad verecundiam, is a form of argument in which a claim made by an authority on some topic is used as evidence to support one's own claim. Further down: > Historically, opinion on the appeal to authority has been divided: some hold that it can be a valid or at least defeasible. You seem to be arguing for appeals to authority as defeasible. Incorrectly understanding the authority you are quoting shows how problematic it is to make pure appeals to authority.
- edgineer 3y agoI read GP as a joke.