Sentences with phrase «just appeal to authority»

«Why should I trust your opinion anyway, you claim to be more qualified than me to decide what treatment is best but that's just appeal to authority and I have a PhD myself you know, and you were a bit rude to me when I came in last time and I read that you were fiddling your taxes so how can I trust your professional judgement?

Your claim is not just appeal to authority, it's repugnant hubris.

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The claim that the UN resolutions suffice to assure «just authority» is belied by destruction in Iraq unrelated to freeing Kuwait (bridges, roads, municipal water and sewage systems) and by restatements of war aims (asking Iraqis to replace Saddam Hussein, demanding unconditional surrender and a war crimes trial) which go far beyond the UN objective (note as well the elements of bad faith in the UN appeal to which Geyer pointed).

In an age suspicious of all authority outside of the self, the appeal to a word that carries transcendent authority can be just distinctive and disruptive enough to be heard, even if not immediately embraced.

Paul and others will make an appeal to their authority as apostles when necessary, or they will say it is a custom, or a hymn; it's not that hard, really, when anyone reads the whole thing instead of just verses.

My guess is Chad just threw in Dr. Collins» name in a lame appeal to authority.

The feeling that somebody has just passed away whose horizons and global appeal extended the international significance of this country is omnipresent — as well as the prevailing idea that his death marks an end of one era... Even the other Vaclav in the presidential office, his successor Klaus, who has been Havel's rival and critic ever since 1989, is now giving him credit — to the degree of admitting that we owe his predecessor «like nobody else for the international position, prestige and authority of the Czech Republic in the world.»

I have no idea where the CJ would get the authority not just to reach down and expedite a pending appeal but to order that cases in varying states of disarray (and maybe some have not even been filed yet) resolved at the trial level and the first appellate level and brought up to the Court of Appeals, IF the top court even has jurisdiction over each distinct dispute, within a fixed time.

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.

Appeals to authority are fine, just like real courts.

Just because an argument is predicated on an appeal to authority in conjunction with a «larger» argument» does not make the argument valid.

Going after a widely published climate scientist, no matter what they said about Mann's work, would just make Mann look bad (I mean, Judith has well over 100 pear reviewed publications, including a bunch in 2013 and 2014, books, etc), and would pretty much eliminate appeals to authority in front of a jury.

It pays to remember this when the nonsense about 91 % to 100 % consensus is thrown around, it is very much just a peer pressure version of appeal to authority.

(As propaganda depends on quantity and repetition... The truth just needs to be heard by a thinking mind...) So truthful questions and truthful evidence and truthful doubts and truthful counter points are attacked, vilified (usually «attack the messenger»), deleted, and drowned out in a flood of non-sequitur and appeal to authority arguments... (Another useful tool, btw, is just to measure the number of Logical Fallacies vs correct logical syllogisms... the more LF the more it's propaganda... the more correct logical syllogisms, data included btw, the less propaganda and the more honest science... but I haven't named that thought tool yet... Perhaps the LF Ratio?

There is no authority to appeal to, there are just camps of experts (and knowledgeable non-experts) opposing one another.

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.

This presentation by Naomi Oreskes is worth watching in full, but at just past the 14 minute point she deals with the value and significance of consensus in science and the question of the appeal to authority.

Blocher argues that while this makes sense as a way of allocating decisionmaking authority between trial and appellate courts based on their relative strengths, he does not see how those arguments apply at all to instant replay in sports, which he characterizes as «just appeals of a different kind.»

«Where an employer fire authority has, at two instances, decided that disciplinary offences should lead to dismissal, good reason is required to overrule their decision, and the Authority is entitled to know why the Secretary of State disagreed with it, just as a fire officer whose appeal is dismissed is entitled to know whauthority has, at two instances, decided that disciplinary offences should lead to dismissal, good reason is required to overrule their decision, and the Authority is entitled to know why the Secretary of State disagreed with it, just as a fire officer whose appeal is dismissed is entitled to know whAuthority is entitled to know why the Secretary of State disagreed with it, just as a fire officer whose appeal is dismissed is entitled to know why.»

The Flood Insurance Reform and Modernization Act of 2006 (H.R. 4973) increases the borrowing authority of the National Flood Insurance Program to $ 25 billion from just over $ 20 billion and instructs the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which manages the flood insurance program, to finalize an appeals process for borrowers whose claims are denied by their carrier.