Shane King wrote
Charles Matthews wrote:
See [[appeal to authority]]. It's not always a fallacy. I see that the "Five conditions for a legitimate argument from authority" now number
_six_.
And interestingly enough, that very point refutes this as a legitimate appeal to authority: "The argument must be valid in its own right i.e. without needing to appeal to authority at all."
Hah! You are trying to win an argument by appealing to the authority of Wikipedia, with something inserted a few days ago which doesn't look very reliable to me (author can't do "its" and "it's", bad sign, as well as this being point six out of five). I hope at least it wasn't inserted by you.
Charles