Imagine when someone points out you’re being illogical by using an appeal to authority and you respond by… doubling down on an appeal to authority. That’s some Marx-tier dialectical thinking there, comrade
TIL appeal to authority is when you cite someone with relevant experience as maybe having thoughts worth listening to on the subject. It’s not merely because he’s a smart physicist, but also because he had a wide variety of political life experience and makes good arguments.
You present no counter argument and just yell “fallacy”. Neither you nor the original reply even bothered to check the veracity of the quote or cite any reasons for or against einstein’s opinion, merely dismissing it out of hand and implying it is ridiculous.
Imagine when someone points out you’re being illogical by using an appeal to authority and you respond by… doubling down on an appeal to authority. That’s some Marx-tier dialectical thinking there, comrade
TIL appeal to authority is when you cite someone with relevant experience as maybe having thoughts worth listening to on the subject. It’s not merely because he’s a smart physicist, but also because he had a wide variety of political life experience and makes good arguments.
You present no counter argument and just yell “fallacy”. Neither you nor the original reply even bothered to check the veracity of the quote or cite any reasons for or against einstein’s opinion, merely dismissing it out of hand and implying it is ridiculous.
“Being illogical is when you consider one of history’s most important users of logic a person that should probably be listened to.”