On 25/07/12 16:47, Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
He linked to the Wikipedia "Appeal to authority" article because
it's a common logical fallacy. Experience alone does not make you
any more right than somebody else, and in the same way, someone
without it is not "less right".
Also, I have 16 years of experience at life, so obviously I'm an
expert at it, right?
I don't see how it means anything.
I'm not arguing that experience doesn't help understanding the issues
related to that experience, what I'm saying is that if someone has
more experience, and he/she is right about his/her statement, then
he/she should have reasons and facts to support his/her opinion and
shouldn't use the 'I have more experience, therefore I'm right' reasoning.
ps: he/she for the honor of
http://www.mail-archive.com/internals@lists.php.net/msg58114.html
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Ferenc Kovács
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Oh yes, of course. Experience can be helpful. But you must support
things with facts, as you said. However I don't think simply having a
lot of experience is always meaningful. It's not really how much, more
*what* experience you have that I think really matters here.
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Andrew Faulds
http://ajf.me/
