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Is Appeal to Authority Ever Acceptable?

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Is Appeal to Authority Ever Acceptable?
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RE: Is Appeal to Authority Ever Acceptable?
April 28, 2012 at 11:47 am
(April 26, 2012 at 12:43 pm)Rhythm Wrote: No, not necessarily Mehm. "Well educated" people are as capable of being incorrect as the completely uneducated.............Angel

(that's ignoring those "experts" in fields in which there is little or nothing in the way of "fact" to begin with)

Well, of course, but the correctness of educated people are for people of their own field to decide.
Not us.
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RE: Is Appeal to Authority Ever Acceptable? - by Tiberius - April 26, 2012 at 12:43 pm
RE: Is Appeal to Authority Ever Acceptable? - by kılıç_mehmet - April 28, 2012 at 11:47 am

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