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Originally Posted by Spuds
Why is Lewis Hamilton an authority on anything other than being a race car driver?
I think you know what I am going to say about the text in bold.
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Argumentum ad verecundiam is an appeal to authority, which is a logic fallacy. An argument isn’t true because it came from a celebrity, a president, the popular kid in school, a preacher, your parents, or a Formula 1 champion. I was making a joke above that Dadhawk wasn’t convinced by my logic fallacy...oh darn.
There was a little bit of an appeal to authority innuendoed into those captions, but a more direct appeal to authority would have captioned, “Lewis Hamilton is a world class Formula 1 champion. He is vegan. You should be vegan too.” Instead, Lewis is just spreading the good word, and his quotes stand as arguments on their own, regardless of whether he is captioned with them or not, but I figured Lewis made a befitting caption for a car forum on Earth Day. Here is another possible car/green combo:
I’ll be naive and say, I don’t know what you could mean.