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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Son of the Serpent" data-source="post: 7978460" data-attributes="member: 7015476">If you agree with an authoritative figure and you cite them because your position is shared by them but you dont prove an understanding of their work youve made an argument from a point of ignorance and the fact that an expert agrees with you and you both are correct is essentially just a fortunate situation for you.This and the fact that you should want your audience to actually understand the reasoning and the evidence is why you must also explain the work.  Otherwise the only differentiating factir between such an argument and an appeal to authority is your correctness.Also, like i said, appealing to someones work is not what im talking about.  Im talking about just apealing to the person.  This is in his reference to "authors" not studies and models.</blockquote>