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  • Argumentum ad populum — regarding your statements about the popular notion that authorities are right. — which would trigger argumentum ad verecundiam.

    Release the Crowley/Gates tapes. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • Nevertheless, unless an expert is trundled in by the media to bolster a particular point of view, as a fleshly argumentum ad verecundiam, people who actually know what they're talking about tend to be quickly categorized, in arch-knuckledragger George Wallace's words, as pointy-headed intellecshuls.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Let's take a short detour to argumentum ad verecundiam.

    About: Blinded by Science 2010

  • Argumentum ad populum — regarding your statements about the popular notion that authorities are right. — which would trigger argumentum ad verecundiam.

    Release the Crowley/Gates tapes. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState 2009

  • Furthermore, economists are not trained in criminology - this is an argumentum ad verecundiam an appeal to an unqualified authority.

    Paul Heroux: The Death Penalty: Questionable Evidence for Deterrence Paul Heroux 2011

  • The phrase argumentum ad verecundiam literally means the means ‘the argument from modesty’, and it was John Locke who evidently first used this phrase to refer to a kind of error or deceptive tactic that can be used by one person in discussion with another …

    Blogginheads Controversy 2009

  • That's a logical fallacy know in Latin as argumentum ad verecundiam, or in English as argument from authority.

    Hospital Says Story Told By Hillary Is False 2009

  • Ad verecundiam followed by ad hominem -- the cheapest shot in the manual.

    Hospital Says Story Told By Hillary Is False 2009

  • Nevertheless, unless an expert is trundled in by the media to bolster a particular point of view, as a fleshly argumentum ad verecundiam, people who actually know what they're talking about tend to be quickly categorized, in arch-knuckledragger George Wallace's words, as pointy-headed intellecshuls.

    Standing aloof in giant ignorance 2009

  • Another favorite is the argumentum ad verecundiam, "argument based on shame."

    Robin Lakoff: Disrupting Democracy 2009

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