On Mon, 15 Jul 2024, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
That's called an Appeal to Authority. On the password expiration item, the authority was the DoD. It is a fallacious argument. They should have appealed to a god, like Yahweh, Jesus or Allah. They would get more blind followers.
Or Kahan. Appeal to authority is not necessarily a fallacy. Quoting Professor Kahan regarding the accuracy of floating point numbers would not be a fallacy. Authorities are not necessarly infallible or honest, so such a quote would be evidence, but not proof. Quoting the professor regarding the identification of poison ivy would be a different story. One would be relying not only on his honesty, but also on his ability to know whether he knows how to identify poison ivy. That said, as noted, 9 out of 10 doctors is a tad vague. -- Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "SCSI is NOT magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then." -- John Woods -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
