Sentences with phrase «as arguments from authority»

His scientific position relies heavily on what is known as the Argument From Authority.

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John Warwick Montgomery, a lawyer and philosopher as well as theologian, provides perhaps the most comprehensive argument by a conservative in his recent book Human Rights and Human Dignity: An Apologetic for the Transcendent Perspective (Zondervan, 1986) He concludes that rights derived from the inerrant teachings of the Bible give authority to the rights set forth in the Universal Declaration, even exceeding its claims in significant ways.

Two arguments for this opinion are drawn from the logic of names, but his primary authority is the Christian neo-Platonist pseudo-Dionysius, who is quoted as saying, «of him there is neither name nor opinion.»

The writer was a lawyer and Episcopalian, and his open letter — making arguments Smith refers to as being taken from «this limbo of defunct controversies» — was published in The Atlantic and thereby carried the weight of the authority of the WASP establishment.

Alas, not only do you make a fallacious argument from authority, you shoot yourself in the foot as well.

This is an argument that draws wide support from educational bodies and providers, as REC Education regularly meets with teaching unions, government departments and local authorities, creating consensus that teacher absence should not lead to a poorer standard of teaching.

Suspended from invisible thread, the work appears weightless and drifting, but as with all of Black's works There Can Be No Arguments has a commanding authority despite the apparent fragility of the materials used.

In Cox's lecture, it exists as a crisis, and he draws authority for his argument from that crisis.

Here, «it was very well known» and «proved by countless experiments» and the general «handwave to the past authority of Arrhenius / Tyndall / Fourier», enough to «prove they were right», while refusing to fetch any of these claimed empirical studies — those denying the Dogma were being successfully marginalised further by this wave of supercilious blocking of arguments from AGWs all the while they were hypocrically proclaiming their repulsion to the blocking of discussion on the science and objecting to the malpractices such as hiding open access of data.

Further, he makes the classic logical error of «begging the question» or assuming the proposition as part of the «proof» when he says Given that global warming is «unequivocal», and is «very likely» due to human activities to quote the 2007 IPCC report, in addition to the obvious argument from authority.

As a matter of principle, allowing grey sources is necessary to avoid the charge of Argument from Authority.

First, and aside from the fact that somebody with pink hair isn't asking to be taken seriously as an authority on global matters... This is one scientist, in a novel field of questionable quality, with one unpublished, un-peer-reviewed, argument.

And no, this is not an argument from authority, although such an argument would be as flimsy as saying that because lots of people review something, the reviewing process is better.

(That's not an argument from authority as much as a plea for you not to dismiss the argument carelessly as a trivial blunder from a random Climate Etc. poster).

In just 1400 words he manages to cram in just about every fallacy from the environmentalist's handbook: he appeals to the dodgiest of authorities, sells politics, catastrophism and factoids as scientific truth, misrepresents his opponents» arguments, cherrypicks data, explains human behaviour in biologically deterministic terms and politics in environmentally deterministic ones, and resorts to the green equivalent of Pascal's wager while accusing «deniers» of religious zeal.

But: (1) often, I see «skeptics» building straw men out of valid arguments that expertise should not be dismissed out of hand, and (2) I often see selective reasoning from «skeptics» where they denounce «realist» arguments as appealing to authority when they then turn right around and appeal to their own authorities.

This blog has pointed out, however, that environmentalism is at least as much an attempt to circumnavigate problems of democratic legitimacy as it is a response to environmental problems — that it is easier to take moral authority from scientific experts than it is to elicit from the governed the consent to govern in lieu of a convincing argument.

The use of labels such as «warmist» and «skeptic,» is symptomatic of the kind of heuristic in which the correct inference is identified by argumentum ad vericundium (argument from authority).

and Semelhago v. Paramadevan [1996] 2 S.C.R. 415: For which see Siebrasse's critique, which interestingly quotes from oral argument an exchange between Gonthier J and John Swan as counsel., where the court's decision was based on a line of reasoning and authorities that were found nowhere in the appellant's or respondent's factums and were never canvassed in oral argument.

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