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Argument from authority

reviewed by lmorovan

This is the informal fallacy of using expert opinion to support a conclusion, rather than actually looking at the facts. "Professor Enkidu did his doctoral dissertation on the subject: therefore unicorns originated in Crete."

lmorovan
05/02/2008

Argument from authority 4

Dan Brown claims to have studied the documents that support his "DaVinci Code", therefore, the DaVinci Code is accurate.

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CanadaSucks commented 576 days ago.
Fiction doesn't fall into. . .aww, forget it. . .
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