Into the Night
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May I allude to sources or references to support my arguments, O King?
No. Not if you want them to be your own arguments.
If you want to refer to say, something in the Constitution of the United States, you can certainly use that document as a source.
If you want to refer to a theory of science, you can certainly use the creator of that theory as a source.
If you want to define a word, then define it...yourself. Dictionaries do not define any word.
If you want to refer to what a politician said, you can refer to that politician, or his web site, not to any news source or any youtube video.
If you want to quote some data, like gun statistics, temperature of the Earth, etc., there are some rules I have before accepting any data:
* I must know who collected the data.
* I must know when it was collected and for what purpose.
* I must know the method of collection, and how biasing influences were removed from the collection process.
* I must have open access to the raw data.
* If a summary is used, I must have the rules of statistical mathematics followed, including having the variance declared and justified, selection of the raw data by randN, normalization by paired randR, and the margin of error value calculated and published along with the averages.
News sources are not valid sources of statistical data, nor is any poll from them valid since they ignore statistical mathematics. They also do not meet my standards of data acceptance.
I don't just accept any data, like you do.
I am no king. You are free to present any references you want, but I simply won't accept them as such. I will call you on your use of false authority fallacies or void authority fallacies as you commit these fallacies.
You do not need to make these fallacies or justify their use. Just start using references properly and from valid sources. For now, it's best to avoid the use of references at all. Learn to make your own arguments first, without references of any kind. It begins there.
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