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argument from authority

a form of defeasible argument in which a claimed authority's support is used as evidence for an argument's conclusion
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argument from authority

Summary

argument from authority is an argumentation scheme[1]. It draws 316 Wikipedia views per month (argumentation_scheme category, ranking #1 of 5).[2]

Key Facts

  • argument from authority's instance of is recorded as argumentation scheme[3].
  • argument from authority's subclass of is recorded as genetic fallacy[4].
  • argument from authority's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04g_7[5].
  • argument from authority's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/argumentum-ad-verecundiam[6].
  • argument from authority's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as appeals-to-authority[7].
  • argument from authority's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2776376964[8].
  • argument from authority's RationalWiki ID is recorded as Argument_from_authority[9].
  • argument from authority's RationalWiki ID is recorded as گزاره‌ی_صاحب‌نظر[10].

Why It Matters

argument from authority draws 316 Wikipedia views per month (argumentation_scheme category, ranking #1 of 5).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 26 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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