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              <td><span style="font-size:115%;font-weight:bold;">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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Revision as of 08:38, 18 August 2015

Appeal to authority
The author assumes that because someone he or she believes is an authority thinks that something is true, that it must therefore be true.