RE: [split] Critical Thinking Skills
March 25, 2013 at 8:48 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2013 at 8:50 pm by jstrodel.)
Obviously, but the argument from authority is not concerned with depicting truth or the ultimate rational behind discerning truth claims, it is concerned with a probabilistic approach to learning that is likely to be true.
For instance, if you went to a doctor, and asked them a question about something, and you didn't know the answer, they would give you an answer that you couldn't necessarily know for certain whether it was true, but you would be better off following it in most cases. The argument from authority is not always fallacious.
You aren't even going to remove that signature either, even though you know that you are wrong. That is the character that is in people. They don't care about being right or wrong, they care about being atheists.
Why can't you admit that you are wrong? What is so hard about that?
For instance, if you went to a doctor, and asked them a question about something, and you didn't know the answer, they would give you an answer that you couldn't necessarily know for certain whether it was true, but you would be better off following it in most cases. The argument from authority is not always fallacious.
You aren't even going to remove that signature either, even though you know that you are wrong. That is the character that is in people. They don't care about being right or wrong, they care about being atheists.
Why can't you admit that you are wrong? What is so hard about that?