Appeal to authority is generally considered to be fallacious[1],
It’s the appeal to inappropriate authority which is fallacious. It’s one of the things that are constantly misquoted.
because the veracity of a statement doesn’t change depending on who is saying it.
Genuine authorities believe things because those things gave a justification which us known to them: therefore , the fact that they believe X is evidence that there is justification for X, a kind of indirect evidence of justification.
Right, beliefs of people who have been tracking evidence are themselves a sort of indirect evidence.
This isn’t only the case when someone has official credentials on a topic, and it’s not a binary choice between “trust the expert” and “trust our own thinking”. It’s something that inevitably informs how to engage in discourse in general, and if we fail to track the strength of this indirect evidence then our unexamined judgements often get us stuck in unpleasant and unproductive disagreements—as joked about in that “It’s not about the nail” video.
Track it, and it takes about two lines to form a relationship with a stranger where she’ll ask if it really is just the nail. Or what your take is on her makeup washing off, or whatever
It’s the appeal to inappropriate authority which is fallacious. It’s one of the things that are constantly misquoted.
Genuine authorities believe things because those things gave a justification which us known to them: therefore , the fact that they believe X is evidence that there is justification for X, a kind of indirect evidence of justification.
Which might be what you are saying.
Right, beliefs of people who have been tracking evidence are themselves a sort of indirect evidence.
This isn’t only the case when someone has official credentials on a topic, and it’s not a binary choice between “trust the expert” and “trust our own thinking”. It’s something that inevitably informs how to engage in discourse in general, and if we fail to track the strength of this indirect evidence then our unexamined judgements often get us stuck in unpleasant and unproductive disagreements—as joked about in that “It’s not about the nail” video.
Track it, and it takes about two lines to form a relationship with a stranger where she’ll ask if it really is just the nail. Or what your take is on her makeup washing off, or whatever