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- From: young@clpd.kodak.com (Rich Young)
- Subject: Re: Calcium/Magnesium
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.220157.11205@pixel.kodak.com>
- Originator: young@sasquatch
- Sender: news@pixel.kodak.com
- Reply-To: young@clpd.kodak.com
- Organization: Clinical Diagnostics Division, Eastman Kodak Company
- References: <C01zGx.AL6@wpg.com> <1992Dec30.225515.21708@pixel.kodak.com> <altar.725779373@sfu.ca>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 22:01:57 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <altar.725779373@sfu.ca> altar@beaufort.sfu.ca (Ted Wayn Altar) writes:
- >young@clpd.kodak.com (Rich Young) writes:
- >
- >>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)
- >
- >
- >Well, I'm very glad to see that you are indeed learning something
- >about logic from me. ;-) ;-)
-
- It's too bad you felt it necessary to flaunt your flatulent ego
- once again. This logic is not new, it's merely a timely presentation
- of a well-known principle in a form which might make a small but
- significant dent in the intellectual isolation of the original
- questioner.
-
-
- -Rich Young (These are not Kodak's opinions.)
-