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              <td><span style="font-size:115%;">Appeal to authority</span><br/>The author assumes that because someone he or she believes is an authority thinks that something is true, that it must therefore be true.</td>
 
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Latest revision as of 14:44, 24 April 2017

Logical Fallacy: Appeal to authority—The author claims that someone is an authority on a topic, and that because this authority made a statement regarding that topic, that he or she is probably correct.

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