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by coldtea 884 days ago
Also have in common the "appeal to authority": (the designers) as arbiters of good judgement
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Appeal to expertise. Appeal to authority is a falacy when the authority is not an expert in the requisite domain. eg: we don't care what a policeman thinks about astrophysics, we do care what the astrophysicist says.