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One of my books, Introduction to Logic, by Irving M. Copi and Carl cohen defines the fallacy thus: "The fallacy Appeal to Inappropiate Authority arises when the appeal is made to parties that have no legitimate claim to authority in the matter at hand."
If you had finished reading that chapter you would probably have come to 'Appeal to Unnamed Authority.' If you had gotten past the introductory course you might have come to understand that the fallacy ultimately rests upon substituting a referent for an argument.