Argument
Argument from authority
Overview
form of defeasible argument in which a claimed authority's support is used as evidence for an argument's conclusion
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- Princeton University Press
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- Latin
- Conformity
- University of Exeter
- Formal fallacy
Place in the tradition
Part of Atheism.