(April 6, 2013 at 12:42 pm)jstrodel Wrote: the summer queen: http://www.google.com - argument from authority - do yourself a favor and stop looking like an idiot
First hit:
wikipedia Wrote:Argument from authority (argumentum ad verecundiam), also authoritative argument and appeal to authority, is an inductive-reasoning argument that often takes the form of a statistical syllogism. Although certain classes of argument from authority can constitute strong inductive arguments, the appeal to authority is often applied fallaciously: either the authority is not a subject-matter expert, or there is no consensus among experts in the subject matter, or both.
When you cited a chemist's rejection of evolution as evidence that evolution was false (at least I think that is what it was about) it was fallacious because the chemist was not a subject-matter expert.
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