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re: AGW Deniers - Seems Kind of Hopeless
Posted on 5/19/14 at 9:50 am to Taxing Authority
Posted on 5/19/14 at 9:50 am to Taxing Authority
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You're entire post is a logical fallacy. Appeal to authority. Look it up.
Maybe you should have looked it up:
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Description of Appeal to Authority
An Appeal to Authority is a fallacy with the following form:
Person A is (claimed to be) an authority on subject S.
Person A makes claim C about subject S.
Therefore, C is true.
This fallacy is committed when the person in question is not a legitimate authority on the subject. More formally, if person A is not qualified to make reliable claims in subject S, then the argument will be fallacious.
This sort of reasoning is fallacious when the person in question is not an expert. In such cases the reasoning is flawed because the fact that an unqualified person makes a claim does not provide any justification for the claim. The claim could be true, but the fact that an unqualified person made the claim does not provide any rational reason to accept the claim as true.
This post was edited on 5/19/14 at 9:51 am
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Posted on 5/19/14 at 10:07 am to AUbused
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Maybe you should have looked it up:
quote:You should look into the who he consensus is made up of (see other post)
This sort of reasoning is fallacious when the person in question is not an expert.
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