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| AdviceMan 04/14/17 1:28:07 PM #18: | ThePrinceFish posted... It's the appeal to authority fallacy in motion. She's an expert and we're not so she must be right. No. Appeal to authority is in response to an argument. This is common sense. Basically, you should assume that someone who has studied and specialized in a subject knows more about it than you do. From your understanding, he's not rational. But you know very little about international relations, North Korea, or such. She knows comparatively more. It's why we defer to experts in fields in say... court cases. Because they know more. For example if a historian who specialized in European Relations theorized of the factors that led up to world war II, and I said "LOL, it's cuz germans are racist", it would be asinine to assume that we both have an equal chance of being correct. Chances are she knows more facts pertaining to their situation than I do, so even though knowing what I know would allow me to come to a conclusion, I might very well be wrong. Now, is it possible she is wrong? Of course. But it seems a little odd to dismiss an expert's estimation of something because you as a layman don't understand why she came to that conclusion. That's my point. --- "I'm not racist but, BLM sure did make me racist." -Skasa I'm just here to offer you advice, take it or leave it. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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