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My question is whether, or to what extent, pretty much the same thing couldn't be said about authority in existential matters -- ormatters—or, more exactly, about epistemic, or nonexecutive, authority in such matters. Assuming that there are such things as existential reality and truth, one can allow the possibility of epistemic, or, more generally, nonexecutive, authority with respect to them. But, then, why shouldn't the same principles that apply to epistemic (or nonexecutive) authority in general also apply to existential as well as to moral epistemic authority in particular?

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