You Will Respect My Authoritah!? A Reply to Botting
In a paper (Mizrahi 2013a) and a reply to critics (Mizrahi 2016a) published in Informal Logic, I argue that arguments from expert opinion are weak arguments. To appeal to expert opinion is to take an expert’s judgment that p is the case as (defeasible) evidence for p. Such appeals to expert opinion...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Windsor
2019-03-01
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Series: | Informal Logic |
Online Access: | https://informallogic.ca/index.php/informal_logic/article/view/5719 |