"appeal to authority" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "appeals to authority",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "appeals to authority"
      },
      "expansion": "appeal to authority (plural appeals to authority)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Logical fallacies",
          "orig": "en:Logical fallacies",
          "parents": [
            "Logic",
            "Rhetoric",
            "Formal sciences",
            "Philosophy",
            "Language",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Communication",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Deeming an assertion to be true because of the position or the authority of the person asserting it."
      ],
      "id": "en-appeal_to_authority-en-noun-Sk4P-7vU",
      "links": [
        [
          "rhetoric",
          "rhetoric"
        ],
        [
          "assertion",
          "assertion"
        ],
        [
          "true",
          "true"
        ],
        [
          "position",
          "position"
        ],
        [
          "authority",
          "authority"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rhetoric) Deeming an assertion to be true because of the position or the authority of the person asserting it."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "genetic fallacy"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rhetoric"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "hy",
          "lang": "Armenian",
          "roman": "heġinakutʻyan vkayakočʻum",
          "sense": "Deeming an assertion to be true because of the position or the authority of the person asserting it",
          "word": "հեղինակության վկայակոչում"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Deeming an assertion to be true because of the position or the authority of the person asserting it",
          "word": "auktoriteettiin vetoaminen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Deeming an assertion to be true because of the position or the authority of the person asserting it",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "argument d’autorité"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "Deeming an assertion to be true because of the position or the authority of the person asserting it",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "apelo à autoridade"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "en:appeal to authority"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "appeal to authority"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "appeals to authority",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
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        "1": "appeals to authority"
      },
      "expansion": "appeal to authority (plural appeals to authority)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "genetic fallacy"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Logical fallacies"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Deeming an assertion to be true because of the position or the authority of the person asserting it."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rhetoric",
          "rhetoric"
        ],
        [
          "assertion",
          "assertion"
        ],
        [
          "true",
          "true"
        ],
        [
          "position",
          "position"
        ],
        [
          "authority",
          "authority"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(rhetoric) Deeming an assertion to be true because of the position or the authority of the person asserting it."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rhetoric"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "en:appeal to authority"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "heġinakutʻyan vkayakočʻum",
      "sense": "Deeming an assertion to be true because of the position or the authority of the person asserting it",
      "word": "հեղինակության վկայակոչում"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Deeming an assertion to be true because of the position or the authority of the person asserting it",
      "word": "auktoriteettiin vetoaminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Deeming an assertion to be true because of the position or the authority of the person asserting it",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "argument d’autorité"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Deeming an assertion to be true because of the position or the authority of the person asserting it",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "apelo à autoridade"
    }
  ],
  "word": "appeal to authority"
}