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The Ad Verecundiam Family - Impersonal |
| Ad verecundiam is a Latin phrase that actually means "(appeal) to
modesty." However, it is generally referred to as "Appeal to
Authority." The arguments in this family appeal to the modesty, i.e. lack of
knowledge or expertise, of the listener (and also generally of the
speaker). Since the listener is too modest to claim to be an expert in the
subject under discussion, the speaker attempts to settle the question by
citing the authority of someone who is an expert. Fallacies in this family share the characteristic that they try to support a position by claiming that it has the support of some authority. However, in the "impersonal" group, this authority is not an actual person to whom opinions and expertise might be attributed. It is, rather, an abstraction of some kind.
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| The fallacies in the impersonal Ad Verecundiam Family are... Appeal to Popularity (Ad Populum) Appeal to Rugged Individualism
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