Sentences with phrase «appealing to an authority figure»
By appealing to an authority figure from the opposing side, this fallacy becomes negated.
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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.
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This is especially the case for young people, because alternative health books belong to a paranoid subculture that naturally appeals to person just beginning to learn that authority figures can be totally wrong.
It's an appeal to authority but it helps the average person not waste time with a bunch of numbers and figures they can't make sense of.
It distanced science from the scholasticism of the ancient universities, and stressed that scientific knowledge is based on appeals to experimental evidence rather than to the word of authority figures.