Appeal to tradition
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title:
Appeal to tradition
text:
Appeal to tradition is a claim in which a thesis is deemed correct on the basis of correlation with past or present tradition. The appeal takes the form of "this is right because we've always done it this way", and is a logical fallacy. The opposite of an appeal to tradition is an appeal to novelty, in which one claims that an idea is superior just because it is new. An appeal to tradition essentially makes two assumptions that may not be necessarily true:
- The old way of thinking was proven
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description:
Logical fallacy in which a thesis is deemed correct on the basis of tradition
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_tradition
date created:
2003-01-23T17:23:51Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T14:04:18Z
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