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So on one hand you accuse people of being unqualified to hold an informed opinion, then when people come with people who are qualified, you say they are making

• andybak 14y ago
  People are often overzealous in labelling things logical fallacies. "My argument is proved because person x thinks so" is a fallacious appeal to authority. but there is nothing wrong with arguing "The fact that person x thinks this increases the probability that the argument is correct." as long as you correctly weight this factor amongst others. Not all arguments need to follow the rules of deductive logic. There is such a thing as heuristics.