Sentences with phrase «valid appeal to authority»

As the letter is not a valid appeal to authority (authority not speaking to the consensus), that leaves the evidence.

Not exact matches

The provincial government filed a reference case Thursday in the B.C. Court of Appeal asking whether amendments it is proposing to the Environmental Management Act are valid and if they give the province the authority to control the shipment of heavy oils based on the impact spills could have on the environment, human health or communities.

Of course, Calvinists think their understanding of Scripture is the only valid one, and part of this is because of their appeals to tradition and authority.

So, again, in my parent's generation, the appeal to authority is / was considered valid.

«Historically, opinion on the appeal to authority has been divided — it has been held to be a valid argument about as often as it has been considered an outright fallacy.»

Right, appeal to authority, I made it and stand by it, and until they take Max Planck's Nobel Prize away from him as well as a dozen or so given to the developers of Quantum Mechanics, then you will have to consider the science I was referencing as valid.

Attacking someone for using Appeal to Authority, in - and - of - itself is not a valid counter-attack unless you explain why their authority is not an aAuthority, in - and - of - itself is not a valid counter-attack unless you explain why their authority is not an aauthority is not an authorityauthority.

The appeal to real or imagined authority is simply not logically valid, period.

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

It's always interesting that the prevalence of shared opinion among climate science experts is irrelevant / antithetical to valid science / an appeal to authority...

Is appeal to authority valid when you are appealing to a view you agree with?

I see our contributing Author has again appealed to his own and his selected authority and put down an opinion which which he does not agree solely by observing that the other source was not correctly qualified to have a valid opinion.

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.