I would like to submit two potentially new fallacies
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Original Question
I've conferred with GPT so I know that my suggestions aren't fully captured by existing fallacies.
Messiah Fallacy: Assuming that truth can only be spoken or discovered by certain exceptional individuals, and discounting true statements from others solely because of who they are. This is clearly incorrect because almost everyone can say "Two plus two equals four.".
Schoolboy Fallacy: Rejecting an expert’s accurate claim because it contradicts one’s limited prior learning, and using that contradiction to unjustly downgrade the expert’s credibility. It goes like this, in school kids learn that one can not take the square root of a negative number. One day a schoolboy encounters a mathematics professor and the schoolboy knows that the person is a mathematics professor. The professor says, "One can take the square root of a negative number.", the schoolboy responeds, "No one can't, I thought you're a professor, you should know better.". This does two incorrect things, it incorrectly "falsifies" the professors claim and it incorrectly makes the professor less of an authority from the perspective of the schoolboy.
Answers
1I think these are already covered by existing fallacies, no?
Messiah Fallacy ...
This is the genetic fallacy.
Schoolboy Fallacy ...
This could be several fallacies: the appeal to common belief, appeal to complexity, or appeal to intuition, depending on how it's justified.
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