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Originally Posted by book bbq Well we would need to have the actual argument of these "authorities" presented here to back up your claim that you are more logical that whoever. |
Why? That's not my claim. It also places an unreasonable demand of my time when compared to the effort of lufts original claim. It also would require that I identify myself and prove my identity, which involves releasing personal details that I'm not willing to reveal to complete strangers.
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Your argument as it is that you are more logical than X because Y says so is straight forward fallacy.
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It's also not my arguement.
"Y says Z, Y is an authourity, therefore Z is true" is a fallacious appeal to authourity.
"People who are Y say Z, therefore there is support for Z" is stating the opinion of authourities, not using their authourity to prove an unrelated claim. It not a fallacy to state the opinion of authourities, if the opinion
is the claim.
There was no fallacy, so lump it.
As your diversion has already taken up more of our time than our opinions of each other are worth, I would suggest that you do not expect any further replies. You will certainly not get one.