X Greetings! You are not currently logged in, but please don't let that stop you from voting up any videos you like. :)
|
| |
|
wraith Member Profile Member Since: 2006-10-24 Last Power Points used: never • Available: now Max Power Points: 1 • Get More Power Points Now Comments 1 |
Subscribe Navigation
Member Stats Rank: 1398 Rating: 1 star points Votes Received: 18 Average Votes Per Video: 18.00 Votes Cast: 15 Comments Posted: 34 • browse Sifted Videos: 1 Profile Views: 656 Highest Ranked Comments Member's Highest Rated Videos |
Videos Submitted by wraith
In reply to this comment by wraith:
Appeal To Authority: "It is one method of obtaining propositional knowledge, but a fallacy in regard to logic, because the validity of a claim does not follow from the credibility of the source."
Reuters and - by extension and your "Moon Astronaut Says We're Not Alone" headline - you imply that him being one of the Apollo Astronauts and having "walk(ed) on the moon" gives his statement any more credibility. This is called "Appeal To Authority" or "argumentum ad verecundiam".
This (the Appeal to Authority) would have worked if a) Mitchell was the resident hush-up operator for Alien contacts by the US-Government or b) he met an alien while he "walk(ed) on the moon".
The way it stands, it does not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethos
In reply to this comment by wraith:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_authority