It's also instructive to see how the self same people who get so het up about (false claims of)
argument from authority arguing... from authority, becuase that's all this letter is.
That in itself proves nothing — using it to
argue for God's existence is simply an
argument from authority, which is a well - known logical fallacy.
One might
argue that Monckton is simply using his opponent's
argument against him, and that Monckton has no truck with the
argument from authority, except that to top off his smackdown Monckton appeals to his own
authority: the unnamed statistician.
The post
from Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog reports on yesterday's Supreme Court
argument in which the state of Arizona and the federal government
argued for — and got Justices supporting — the broad proposition that police who encounter someone in a public place should have the
authority to frisk that individual any time they fear he may be «armed and dangerous,» even if they have no suspicion that any crime has been or is being committed.
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