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To: RMF who wrote (42768)	4/15/2010 1:20:23 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 71588

So, you don't even CARE about the backgrounds of people that feed you information? Not that much. (Not that these people are major sources of information for me.) If someone is the sole source of a specific claim of fact, and the only argument I have for it is an argument from authority with them as the authority, than I will pay more attention to their backgrounds, but mostly only in terms of how it affects the reliability of what they present, and arguments from authority are weak, whoever the authority is. If instead of being the sole source of a claim of fact, someone claims facts that I can check, than I'll just check them, and if they make an argument I'll analyze the argument. The person making the argument is irrelevant to its validity. The logic stands or falls on its own (assuming they actually present logic, if they just say "X should be Y", or "I think Z", than your back to arguments from authority)