| Título: | There is no Fallacy of Arguing from Authority |
| Autores: | Coleman, Edwin |
| Fecha: | 1995-01-01 |
| Publicador: | Informal logic |
| Fuente: |
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| Tipo: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article |
| Tema: | fallacy, argument, authority, speech act |
| Descripción: | I argue that there is no fallacy of argument from authority. I first show the weakness of the case for there being such a fallacy: text-book presentations are confused, alleged examples are not genuinely exemplary, reasons given for its alleged fallaciousness are not convincing. Then I analyse arguing from authority as a complex speech act. Rejecting the popular but unjustified category of the "part-time fallacy", I show that bad arguments which appeal to authority are defective through breach of some felicity condition on argument as a speech act, not through employing a bad principle of inference. |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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