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Appeal to authority

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Never mind.
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Re: Appeal to authority

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Well alrighty then... :lol:

I never miss an opportunity to educate.
Wikipedia wrote:Argument from authority (Latin: argumentum ab auctoritate), also authoritative argument and appeal to authority, is a common form of argument which leads to a logical fallacy when misused.[1]

In informal reasoning, the appeal to authority is a form of argument attempting to establish a statistical syllogism.[2] The appeal to authority relies on an argument of the form:

A is an authority on a particular topic
A says something about that topic
A is probably correct

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1) "Logical Fallacies". Stanford.edu. Fall 2008. Retrieved 2014-01-25.
2) Jump up to: a b Salmon, M. H. (2006). Introduction to Critical Reasoning. Mason, OH: Thomson Wadsworth. pp. 118–9.
I've seen this used a lot on these discussion Forums. Some use it more than others. Truth doesn't care whether we get it right or wrong; truth remains, and is there for us to discover.

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