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Fallacy (informal) -

Appeal to authority (argument from authority, argumentum ad verecundiam) - an assertion is incorrectly assumed true because of the position or authority of the person asserting it.*

* Per Walton, Douglas (2008). Informal Logic: A Pragmatic Approach (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN .

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