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Appeals to authority are always deductively fallacious; even a legitimate authority speaking on his area of expertise may affirm a falsehood, so no testimony of
by cliqui 13y ago
Appeals to authority are always deductively fallacious; even a legitimate authority speaking on his area of expertise may affirm a falsehood, so no testimony of any authority is guaranteed to be true.
source: http://www.logicalfallacies.info/relevance/appeals/appeal-to-authority/ http://www.logicalfallacies.info/relevance/appeals/appeal-to...
- nopassrecover 13y agoThough to be fair you just used an appeal to authority to support your statement...