Tried to inventory sources of authority, and there’s way more than I thought: individual, institutions, doctrines, core texts, totalizing plans, statistical precedent, persuasive argument, aesthetic closure, witnessing, collective sentiment, gut feelings, consensus historicism...
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If I give you the series 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32,... you will feel compelled to add 64 as the next number in the sequence even though I haven’t set a rule or reason. The sequence has a “powers of 2” aesthetic.
Or “underdog must win” in a sports movie. What Pratchett called Narratvium
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truth and symmetry.
the rest wrap around these to appear authoritative, or blatantly masquerade as authority.
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If you have a list of more than five categories, you're missing a level of intermediate categorization.
(Because of the authority of cognitive ergonomics, which belongs to the same intermediate category as aesthetic closure.)
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