We are all equals that must
never appeal to our authority as an expert.»
Not exact matches
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.
From this time come the disputes over interpretation of the Law, in which they
appealed to the
authority of Jesus and represented him as the rabbi which he had
never been.
Furthermore, if the teacher follows progressivist dictates, she will
never exercise
authority in the classroom but will
appeal instead
to the children's needs and interests.
We shall go on
to the end, we shall fight in the Universities we shall fight on the web, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the blogosphere, we shall defend the scientific method, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight with logic, we shall fight with wisdom, we shall fight the ad hominems and
appeals to authority, we shall
never surrender.
An
appeal to authority is
never the basis for a «logical scientific argument.»
You know that I love you, man, and certainly as a statist, capitalism - hating, tax - loving, authoritarian warmist - cult member, I would
never question the analysis of a government agency, but thinking of my dearly beloved «skeptical» friends, I could
never accept such a response that looks so much like what they denounce as an «
appeal to authority.»
Actually, kim, my point is that
appealing to authority is often not fallacious, but that «skeptics» ignore that distinction on a regular basis; it seems that the working theory is that
appealing to authority is
never fallacious when they do so and always fallacious when «realists» do so.
If you
appeal to authority (which I
NEVER do) then who are you going
to side with?
The language of the Court of
Appeal seemed
to hint that while a woman working solo in her own residence could
never run afoul of bawdy house legislation, the government might be able
to draft non-offending legislation that targeted larger commercial operations and there is little doubt that where criminalization fails, municipal regulation enjoys a broad
authority to fill the gap.
«The case must have occurred a thousand times, but the reason why counsel, who argued the
appeal, were unable
to cite any
authority directly bearing upon the question, is probably that, until this case arose, there
never was anybody wrong - headed enough
to make such an accident the subject of an action at law.»