{"id":938,"date":"2020-09-17T16:34:51","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/?page_id=938"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:20:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T11:20:58","slug":"argumentum-ad-verecundiam","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/argumentum-ad-verecundiam\/","title":{"rendered":"Argumentum ad verecundiam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Just because you\u2019re an expert it doesn\u2019t mean everything you say about it has to be right.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/16eng.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/16eng.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-746\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<div id=\"oculto\" style=\"visibility: hidden; display: none;\">\n<p id=\"p1\">https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/16eng.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\n\n<p>Even though it may sometimes be appropriate to quote an authority on the subject to reinforce a point, many times it is not; since that\u2019s not an argument or reasoning in itself.<br>Appealing to a voice of authority is particularly inappropriate if:<br>-The person is not qualified to emit an educated opinion on the matter.<br>-Not every authority in the field agrees on the argument.<br>-The quoted authority was joking, drunk or somehow not being serious about the subject.<br>A variation on this false use of authority is \u201chearsay quotes\u201d, by which a second or even a third source of authority is appealed to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Examples<\/strong><br>The economist John Kenneth Galbraith claims that austerity is the best cure for recession. (Even though Galbraith is an expert, not every economist agrees with him on this matter).<br>We\u2019re heading to a nuclear war. Last week, Ronald Reagan announced he would start nuking Russia in five minutes. (He was actually joking about it while testing a microphone).<br>A friend of mine heard in the news the other day that Canada is declaring war on Serbia. (This is hearsay; as a matter of fact the anchor said Canada would NOT declare war on Serbia).<br>The \u201cOttawa Citizen\u201d reported that its sales rose 5.9%. (This is hearsay, since there\u2019s no way to verify the publisher\u2019s sources).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To refute it<\/strong><br>Prove there\u2019s actually no logical no argument of logic, just an appealing to a voice of authority as the source of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just because you\u2019re an expert it doesn\u2019t mean everything you say about it has to be right. https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/16eng.gif Click here to copy the image for your social network Even though it may sometimes be appropriate to quote an authority on the subject to reinforce a point, many times it is not; since that\u2019s not an [&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\/938"}],"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=938"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1051,"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/938\/revisions\/1051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallacies.escepticos.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}