Is this appeal to bias?
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Original Question
Is it fallacious to prefer to read unbiased sources because they generally have a more proper view?
I tend to learn about religions from academic, scholarly, and objective sources and not from, for example, evangelical websites, so I was just wondering if this is similar to the fallacy of appeal to bias.
Answers
1To clarify, The circumstantial fallacy (An appeal to bias) is only a fallacy when one suggests that if one source is biased, it must be wrong.
Though if you want to see if this is, "similar". If you want to learn about religions from academic, scholarly and objective sources that are not, "biased" that is completely fine because bias can have a lower probability of accuracy potentially.
If that is what you choose to do, then no it is not a fallacy because it's probabilistically correct even thought you could still find biased sources that say the truth.
Though as far as I am aware, in an argument if you rejected a source because it is, "biased" then this would be the genetic fallacy .
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