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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
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@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] “An argument from authority, also called an appeal to authority, or argumentum ad verecundiam, is a form of argument in which the opinion of an influential figure is used as evidence to support an argument.
All sources agree this is not a valid form of logical proof, that is to say, that this is a logical fallacy”
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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?