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user-inactivated  ·  3154 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Forum where fallacies are banned

Statistical inferences are an appeal to logos by Aristotle's definition, because math is always an appeal to reason and anyway probability is a logic. Citing scientific work is ethos, though, because it's asking you to trust the intellectual virtues of the scientists who did the work.