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Summary Of: Appeal to authority

Appeal to authority as logical fallacy... The first form of the appeal to authority is when a person presenting a position on a subject mentions some authority who also... the appeal to authority plays on the Western culture... Appeal to authority as logical fallacy... Appeal to authority as logical fallacy... appeal to authority argument has the basic form... The fact that an argument is an appeal to authority does not make its conclusion untrue... An appeal to authority thus confuses cause and effect...

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