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What appeal to authority? The whole point of my comment was that I'm now more unsure of anything than I was when I was younger and more susceptible to appealin
by bitserf 12y ago
What appeal to authority?
The whole point of my comment was that I'm now more unsure of anything than I was when I was younger and more susceptible to appealingly simple solutions.
The world is incredibly grey.
- innguest 12y agoThe appeal to authority is "I'm older, therefore wiser regarding subject matter X". Being unsure is excellent. Relying on maxims such as "simple solutions are wrong" is not. Simple or complex, the only way to prove something wrong is by refuting it. For that you need reason. Maxims are not refutations.