The appeal to authority or argumentum ad verecundiam is an informal logical fallacy in which a false or misplaced authority is appealed to in order to justify an argument or idea.

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The fallacy of irrelevant authority is committed when you accept without proper support for his or her alleged authority, a person's claim or proposition as true.

The appeal to authority is a logical fallacy that occurs when a claim is assumed to be true because it was made by a perceived authority figure. A basic example of this is the argument …

Other related fallacious arguments assume that a person without status or authority is inherently reliable. For instance, the appeal to poverty is the fallacy of thinking that someone is more …

Appeal to authority fallacy is a type of informal fallacy which means that the logical error lies in the content of the argument. Regardless of whether the claim is true or not, an appeal to authority …

The appeal-to-authority fallacy, also known as argument from authority, is a logical fallacy in which the validity or truthfulness of a claim is based solely on the authority or expertise of the …

If an arguer cites a statement by a witness in support of a conclusion and there is good reason to doubt the accuracy of the winess's obervations, the arguer commits the fallacy of inappropriate …

Without having a justification, a person's claim to have knowledge is unsuccessful, but with the justification the person’s claim. a. will never be mistaken and will really know. b. might be …

A potentially defeasible argument and fallacy of relevancy, which consists of referring to a statement of authority, instead of bringing forward factual arguments.