Sentences with phrase «appeal to authority»
It's hard to appeal to authority when there's another authority that might be more authoritative.
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As the letter is not a valid appeal to authority (authority not speaking to the consensus), that leaves the evidence.
I'll give you points for a creative appeal to authority.
, but in fact it's far worse than that: it's a dishonest appeal to authority.
This is by no means the first time we have seen this convergence between misplaced appeals to authority and the emotional thirst for certainty.
Not the same as appeal to authority is it?
You have no thoughts of your own so it would seem and therefore you constantly make these sad appeals to authority fallacies.
Why do so many Christian «geniuses» believe in talking snakes, and engage in idiotic logical fallacies like appealing to authority?
Your claim is not just appeal to authority, it's repugnant hubris.
He voices concerns about the following threats to scientific integrity (see especially the last page): appealing to emotions; making personal (ad hominem) attacks; deliberately mischaracterizing an inconvenient argument; inappropriate generalization; misuse of facts and uncertainties; false appeal to authority; hidden value judgments; selectively leaving out inconvenient measurement results.
For some reason it never seems to occur to the clergy person (s) to ask whether the accuser (s) have first personally confronted the defendent, as instructed to do by Scripture, before appealing to an authority figure.
Why appeal to authority when the person writing this article possesses only credentials that are easily trumped by many many scientists who would disagree with her.
Andrew, You have done an excellent job at appealing to authority.
One may identify theology with dogmatism in the sense of blind appeal to authority and refusal to be honest about the facts.
That debate — at the height of the dominance of AGW — devolved into the con - side repeatedly appealing to authority while the pro- side kept arguing the science.
The IGP also appealed to authorities who are mediating the age - old chieftaincy clashes to deliver their verdict and also come up with a road map towards restoring the area to peace.
Faulty appeal to authority, ad hominem attacks, Statism, computer illiteracy, economic illiteracy, unbridled sensationalism hearsay etc..
The magisterium appeals to these authorities as grounds for repudiating divorce, abortion, homosexual relations, and the ordination of women to the priesthood.
Mr. Blair does not seem to understand that religious justifications are inherently appeals to authority.
I can not say the book is great literature, but it is a good read, and it provides a powerful feel for the day - by - day pressures exerted by a regime bent upon extinguishing any independent force of possible opposition, and especially any force appealing to an authority transcending the state.
You have, however, succesfully demonstrated the fundamental flaws of religion: It rests on untestable assertions, logic - defying presumptions and blind appeals to authority cobbled together in an attempt to create a screen from genuine inquiry.
We are all equals that must never appeal to our authority as an expert.»