Re: just checking...
"Peter T. Chattaway" <petert-LOVM4QxV+tDq6eQxt3vRmLDks+cytr/[email protected]>
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Mike Findlay wrote: > If it is to be a battle of experts I'll take my experts. "You have your Jews and I have mine," eh? Well obviously that just begs the question; it's an extension of that old fallacy, the appeal to authority. And it exposes the reason *why* that fallacy is, in fact, a fallacy: we can always choose the "authorities" that appeal to us. In any case, my argument has no need of "experts". Everyone agrees what the term originally meant. The only point of disagreement now is over whether the term is offensive *today*, and in *this context*. And it is an objective fact that, yes, to some people, it is. > I'm not sure how to explain it any better than that if you don't agree > that the credibility of one making claims goes to the veracity of the > claims. More of that appeal-to-authority fallacy. We don't need to appeal to the credibility of others when we can check the facts for ourselves. -- dadl-ot mailing list http://mail.thehood.us/mailman/listinfo/dadl-ot_thehood.us http://news.gmane.org/gmane.music.dadl.ot