(April 6, 2013 at 3:56 pm)jstrodel Wrote: You guys are dumb. I'm not going to argue about this anymore. An argument from authority is not categorically fallacious, anyone who thinks it is is just ignorant of basic academic knowledge and is ignorant of the probabilistic nature of science and learning. If you think an argument from authority is categorically fallacious, it is because you learned how to think from reading a website, not from a real university.
Universities have websites. Here's UT at El Paso.
http://utminers.utep.edu/omwilliamson/EN...lacies.htm
Check "Testimonial".
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