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What is an appeal to authority

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Answer: Logical Form: According to person 1, who is an expert on the issue of Y, Y is true. Therefore, Y is true.

Explanation: Insisting that a claim is true simply because a valid authority or expert on the issue said it was true, without any other supporting evidence offered. Also see the appeal to false authority.

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