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This paper provides a typology of appeals to authority, identifying three distinct types: that which is based on a command; that which is based on expertise; and that which is based on dignity. Each type is distinguished with respect to the reaction that a failure to follow it ordinarily evokes. The rhetorical roots of Locke's ad verecundiam are traced to the rhetorical practices of ancient Rome.

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1. Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University, 1815 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, IL, 60208-1340, U.S.A
   Jean Goodwin

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Goodwin, J. Forms of Authority and the Real Ad Verecundiam.Argumentation 12, 267–280 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007756117287

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• Issue date: May 1998
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1007756117287