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<blockquote data-quote="Mistwell" data-source="post: 9433366" data-attributes="member: 2525">I have no dog in this fight, other than to say you're using the &quot;Argument from Authority fallacy&quot; incorrectly. Citing experts as authorities isn't a fallacy. <a href="https://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/authority.html" target="_blank">Ad Verecundiam (Argument from Authority)</a> is &quot;a fallacy when the appeal is to an irrelevant authority and nonfallacious when the appeal is to a relevant authority.&quot; Otherwise, as mentioned by Mamba, a virologist's opinion about a virus would be viewed as authoritative as the postal delivery person's opinion on that virus. In this case, both citations are to actual authorities in those fields. The first is from faculty experts in the field from a published book on the topic form the Council for Online Learning Excellence. The second from faculty of the University of Hartford also writing on the subject. Both are experts in the field, are actual authorities on the topic, and citing to them is not an Argument from Authority fallacy because they are relevant authorities. It would be an Argument from Authority fallacy if you citied either of these experts on the topic of printed circuit boards or the price of tea in China, as they are not experts in either of those fields.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mistwell, post: 9433366, member: 2525"] I have no dog in this fight, other than to say you're using the "Argument from Authority fallacy" incorrectly. Citing experts as authorities isn't a fallacy. [URL='https://philosophy.lander.edu/logic/authority.html']Ad Verecundiam (Argument from Authority)[/URL] is "a fallacy when the appeal is to an [B]irrelevant[/B] authority and nonfallacious when the appeal is to a [B]relevant [/B]authority." Otherwise, as mentioned by Mamba, a virologist's opinion about a virus would be viewed as authoritative as the postal delivery person's opinion on that virus. In this case, both citations are to actual authorities in those fields. The first is from faculty experts in the field from a published book on the topic form the Council for Online Learning Excellence. The second from faculty of the University of Hartford also writing on the subject. Both are experts in the field, are actual authorities on the topic, and citing to them is not an Argument from Authority fallacy because they are [B]relevant [/B]authorities. It would be an Argument from Authority fallacy if you citied either of these experts on the topic of printed circuit boards or the price of tea in China, as they are not experts in either of those fields. [/QUOTE]

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