"it is a curious phenomenon that many academics are quick to condemn arguments from authority as the weakest of arguments even while they scurry around to become recognized by their peers as authorities in their own chosen fields."
I don't know whether or not Mathematics exists entirely in our minds, but I know for a fact that authority does.
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"But it is not from the desire to be the source of the weakest of arguments in their fields that they do this; it is out of a latent sense of the real definition of authority that they exert themselves so vigorously in their pursuits, namely...
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if authority exists only in the mind, why do so many have scars from it?
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Christ, people want to complicate this. Authority, whatever drives it, only exists by consent. I don’t often completely agree with your posts, but I’m all in on this one.
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the authority of slavers over slaves does not exist by consent.
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If it exists in enough minds willing to act in accordance with that belief it ends up existing in the world as well.
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And yet, when I fight it, it always wins.
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Not a man of orthodox I see
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That's why they expelled me from school. I shouldn't have told them.
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People in prison probably have a different view.
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