Re:An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante, Whoever You Are
by jerf on Monday December 10, 2018 @03:52PM
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Plea to authority is a fallacy when it is an inappropriate plea to authority. Asking that someone who writes a history book actually be an authority on history is not a fallacy.
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Re:An Open Letter to Elena Ferrante, Whoever You Are
by slededit on Monday December 10, 2018 @04:53PM
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When a work is popular and heavily critiqued the authority of the author is no longer necessary. Surely the volume of critical analysis provides you sufficient information that you no longer need such a noisy signal as the author's identity.