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Fallacy (informal) -
Appeal to authority (argument from authority, argumentum ad verecundiam) - an assertion is incorrectly assumed true because of the position or authority of the person asserting it.*
* Per Walton, Douglas (2008). Informal Logic: A Pragmatic Approach (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN .
>"So you captured where we are, do you have a direction we could go? Asking because i do not ^^"
I don't understand. This was just a joke about the fallacy of "Appealing to authority". (I cited a reference to an authority on logic.)
@Pat Ah ok, i thought it was meant more broadly
I guess there was a bit of "Question Authority" in there, but it was just a joke, and maybe to get people to think about relying too much on experts.
@Pat So you captured where we are, do you have a direction we could go? Asking because i do not ^^