{"id":103,"date":"2015-12-14T11:52:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T11:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/falacias.escepticos.es\/?page_id=103"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:16:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:16:04","slug":"argumento-ad-antiquitatem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/argumento-ad-antiquitatem\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeal to tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Being always wrong doesn\u2019t make you less wrong.<\/strong><br \/>\n<a title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/17eng-1.gif\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-330\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-915 size-full\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/17eng-1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"oculto\" style=\"visibility: hidden; display: none;\">\n<p id=\"p1\">https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/17eng-1.gif<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<button onclick=\"copiarAlPortapapeles('p1')\">Click here to copy the image for your social network<\/button><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Argumento_ad_antiquitatem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Argumentum ad antiquitatem <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(also known as \u201cappeal to tradition\u201d) is a logic fallacy consisting in claiming that if something has been done or believed for a long time ago it means it must be right or true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Examples<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">People have always travelled by horse. There\u2019s no need to travel by car now. (Refutation: nowadays we make longer journeys, and horses wouldn\u2019t be adequate to run such distances).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That\u2019s probably a bad idea, since nobody has tried before. (Refutation: just because it hasn\u2019t been tried before it doesn\u2019t mean the idea will fail).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These laws have been applied for 100 years. There\u2019s no reason to change them (Refutation: relatively important changes could have happened that would render change as suitable).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women should stay at home because that&#8217;s how it has always been. (Refutation: due to social inequalities, women in the past had few options to find a job out of their homes. That\u2019s not the case nowadays).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>To refute it<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The simplest way is pointing to social changes, or changes in the subject itself that invalidate the argument.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whenever the source is not referenced, both definitions and examples have been extracted from a translation of Jaime Wilson jwilson@bytecr.com based on<em> Stephen\u2019s Guide to the Logical Fallacies<\/em>. Copyright 1995-1998 Stephen Downes. Brandon, Manitoba, Canada.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: grey; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 75%;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These texts have been modified by Miguel A. Lerma and now by us <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to adapt them -and those taken from Wikipedia- to our format.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being always wrong doesn\u2019t make you less wrong. https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/17eng-1.gif Click here to copy the image for your social network wikipedia Argumentum ad antiquitatem (also known as \u201cappeal to tradition\u201d) is a logic fallacy consisting in claiming that if something has been done or believed for a long time ago it means it must be right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}