An appeal to tradition is only fallacious in itself if the argument is not developed further, such as pointing out that the widespread acceptance of a practice or dependency on it means that abandoning it would incur significant implications/disruption/cost. For example, arguing that the QWERTY keyboard layout should be retained "because it is traditional" would be fallacious unless the further argument is made that , being traditional, QWERTY is familiar to most current keyboard users who would need retraining if any change were made . The further development may introduce other fallacies.
An appeal to tradition is only fallacious in itself if the argument is not developed further, such as pointing out that the widespread acceptance of a practice or dependency on it means that abandoning it would incur significant implications/disruption/cost. For example, arguing that the QWERTY keyboard layout should be retained "because it is traditional" would be fallacious without the argument that most keyboard users would need retraining to adapt to changes . The further development may introduce other fallacies.
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