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To: Mr. Silverback
Call him over here so he can see my links. Or point me to him.

You seem big on appeals to authority.

Did you really just write both of those sentences one almost after the other? lol

250 posted on 11/22/2010 11:04:47 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: TigersEye
Did you really just write both of those sentences one almost after the other? lol

Didn't pass logic class, did you?

An appeal to authority is saying something must be true because some big poobah believes it. Such as "Compound X is the best cancer medicine in our tests, because Dr. Poopenmeyer says it's the best" or "It's a missile because an Air Force General says so."

I was appealing to evidence. An appeal to evidence would be something like "Compound X is the best cancer medicine in our tests because it increase the survival rate buy twice as much as any other" or "It's a missile because you can see a stage separation at 1:39 on the video."

Since the links I was providing contain evidence, not poobahs, I was appealing to evidence. It was as if I was a lawyer and said, "Send that guy to me and I'll show him the photo that proves my client's alibi."

So, yeah...you were way off.

252 posted on 11/22/2010 11:29:58 PM PST by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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