Appealing to an irrelevant, unqualified, unidentified, biased, or fabricated source in support of an argument (modern usage). Historical use of this fallacy was in the attribution of “religious” or “spiritual” experiences to outside “higher” sources rather than internal, psychological processes (see fantasy projection ).
Examples:
- But professor, I got all these facts from a program I saw on TV once... I don’t remember the name of it though.