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- From: young@clpd.kodak.com (Rich Young)
- Subject: Re: Calcium/Magnesium
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.225515.21708@pixel.kodak.com>
- Originator: young@sasquatch
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- References: <1992Dec29.232920.3510@pixel.kodak.com> <C01zGx.AL6@wpg.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 22:55:15 GMT
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- In article <C01zGx.AL6@wpg.com> russ@wpg.com (Russell Lawrence) writes:
-
- [...]
-
- >Would you mind explaining how/why credentials can ever be used to
- >reasonably test the truth or falsity of a statement concerning
- >human nutrition? On the whole, you seem to be saying that
- >credentials are admissible when you say they are, and they're not
- >admissible when you say they're not. Please tell us the guidelines
- >that you use for making the distinction.
-
- As quoted by Ted Wayn Altar:
-
- Agumentum ad verecundiam (appeal to authority) . . . This
- method of argument is not always strictly fallacious, for the
- reference to an admitted authority in the special field of
- his competence may carry great weight and constitute relevant
- evidence. If laymen are disputing over some question of
- physical science and one appeals to the testimony of Einstein
- on the matter, that testimony is very relevant. Although it
- does not prove the point, it certainly tends to support it.
- (from Irving Copi, INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC, 3r ed., p. 66-67)
-