>Its the same basic thing Mike...of course, I did'nt have to resort to the web....
>
>Good to see your copy and paste skills are being put to good use. The important being that you had to resort to the web... and of course, what you purported to be an appeal to authority originally - was wrong...
Mike claims that John doesn't listen to objections and gives some examples.
John says Mike appealed to an authority, which is a fallacy.
Mike says its not a fallacy unless the authority is illegitmate.
John says no, the fallacy is in appealing to an authority.
Mike backs up his assertion by appealing to a webpage as an authority.
John defends his misunderstanding of appeal to an authority by attacking Mike's valid appeal to an authority.
If you are doing this on purpose, congratulations, I haven't seen anything this subtley clever in a while.
In either case, I'm thoroughly amused. Thanks.
Previous
Next
Reply
View the map of this thread
View the map of this thread starting from this message only
View all messages of this thread
View all messages of this thread starting from this message only