(December 12, 2012 at 5:25 pm)Faith No More Wrote: Is there a specific fallacy that says that appealing to the age of the person putting forth the argument is invalid? If not, there needs to be one.
Hmm. My guess would be that such an appeal would be an example of the genetic fallacy. The notion that a person's argument is invalid because of [some fact about the person making the argument] is a fallacy.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”