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Uh, no. You've excluded the most important part:
>(...) of someone who is taken to be an authority but is not really an authority.
The definition you took from Wikipedia actually does not reflect its source.
<If (..) we try to [impress the reader] with a famous name or by appealing to a supposed authority who really isn’t much of an expert, (...)
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Did you read the next sentence? “Similarly, when there is controversy, and authorities are divided, it is an error to base one’s view on the authority of just some of them”
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Yes, I did. Why? You wish to change the subject and discuss confirmation bias now?
@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Lol so you used a puppet account to intentionally act in bad faith and take a quote out of context? Wtf is wrong with you?