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ODM Secretary General Senator Edwin Sifuna. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard]
In basic logic, there is such a notion as verecundiam fallacy. This delusion resides in appeal to authority, or expertise, when putting across your point.
Known in its Latin original as argumentum ad verecundiam, the speaker ignores the internal logic, or absence of logic, in what is being said. He instead states things like, "I am a doctor, I am a lawyer, I am an engineer."
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