The "Appeal to Antiquity"
Everybody appeals to Antiquity: whether S Pius V (bull Quod a nobis " ... ad pristinam orandi regulam conformata revocaretur ...") or Archbishop Cranmer ("these many years …
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Jeffrey Ade
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Sometimes an appeal is made to antiquity to pass off a new prayer under the form of an earlier rite like the 1955 Easter Missal. Sort of like a subterfuge.
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"Everybody appeals to Antiquity" is the fallacy of a Hasty Generalization. ;-)