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If someone with a phD spends years researching a topic, wouldn't they be more of a reliable source of knowledge on the topic than someone who isn't?
Why would someone who isn't in the same position, like Destiny, be trusted to prescribe solutions for impactful topics to hundreds of thousands of Youtube viewers?
Are we saying that it's ok for someone to not go through a phD, sharpen their analytical skills and pose to be an expert on a topic? How do we know that they have deep enough knowledge, at least to a phD level, to form reasonable conclusions?
What I mean is, what is the main reason why an appeal to authority is bad no matter the usage?
I know the practical reasons for it: 1) An appeal to authority is not based on the content of one's argument but on their status. 2) It shuts down other people's input when they're not necessarily invalid or wrong just because they're not on that same status as the person they're arguing with. Or 3) if the authority figure someone is appealing to is irrelevant, or their thoughts not applicable, to the argument at hand.
I've seen some people say that a person well educated on the subject giving their thoughts on the matter using their extensive knowledge to support their argument is more reliable but isn't that still an appeal to authority? Is it a perfectly sound argument? Or is it a different kind of fallacy?
Any person using (trusting) Tether is taking part in a central bank 2.0 scheme. Stop it. You are doing no one, not even yourself a favour. Routing around the USD limitations is bull shit. There is no routing around, when you use 3rd party trust-based manipulation schemes. Take and use cryptos and you are fine. Make the crypto revolution an actual thing. /rant
So many threads and comments start with or mention somewhere that the user was "BIC, baptized at 8, YM president, went on a mission, AP, EQP, bishop, stake president" etc etc etc. I understand the need for context, but this seems entirely over the top. I can't help but roll my eyes at this. I feel like "hey, I was super invested and did my legwork" is easier to read, and doesn't sound like some sort of weird humblebrag.
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I wasn't sure what to do with the rarity. Common was obviously too low, but I felt it wasn't good enough to be rare. I'm not 100% sure that level of card filtering is in blacks slice of the color pie, but tutoring definitely is, and I was thinking of Mausoleum Secrets as its closest comparison. I'm mainly a commander player, so thats where I imagined it. IDK, is this too powerful for standard/modern?
I believe when a person uses a title they have they've earned, such as from schooling, to assert their argument is correct, this is often a logical fallacy. I believe that a title of authority does not mean the individual is right, but rather, that it means you should consider their authority when deciding whether to trust someone or not. I believe titles of authority are based solely on trust, and not actual correctness.
An example I used: We can take a popular example from tropes - a young woman takes her car to a mechanic. The mechanic charges her for changing her headlight fluid. The young woman trusts the mechanic is being truthful, because he is an assumed authority on cars. Does this mean the mechanic actually changed her headlight fluid?
Authority isn't about being right, it's about trust. The arguments of any user shouldn't change because of a title - if I say 2+2 = 4, that doesn't change based on whether I have a background in math or whether I'm in grade school. Likewise, if I make an argument, the argument doesn't change based on me stating that I'm an academic <insert>.
Users from a philosophy sub have disagreed with me on this, and I'm willing to hear legitimate arguments as to why I'm wrong, hopefully dropping the snark (I admit I had heavy snark when I was posting) because I want them to share their ideas with me. If I'm genuinely wrong, so be it - I want to know.
As a side note (but not the core of the CMV) I think that asserting dominance based on a title hearkens strongly to "class warfare", not unlike those you would see in a caste system. Obviously not something so serious on reddit, since in a caste system, it affects peoples lives pretty dramatically, and on reddit, it just means a bunch of users are going to talk at you excessively. It is an assertion that some people are better than others based on their title, and that any arguments made to counter that are invalid because of a lack of that title.
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... keep reading on reddit ➡Obviously when making an argument, it's useful and often an absolute necessity to cite prior works and thinkers. When does a citation end and an appeal to authority begin and how does one ensure they avoid such logical pitfalls?
http://twitter.com/AP/status/1093440521161326592
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Muh fallacy!!!!!!1!!!!
OPs only appeal is to twitterbois apparent authority. Apparently even other seals do not him at all. Try harder....
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Author: /u/fublex
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Now it Vampiric Tutors instead of Demonic Tutors.
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