By Schubert Ogden
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Consider the following passages:
"If Y knows _p_ to be true independently of X's enunciating _p_, then Y has no need of X as an epistemic authority with respect to _p_. \ [By the same token, i\]f X is to be an epistemic authority for Y in some field, then X's utterances that are believed by Y must be such that Y does not know them to be true on independent grounds" (_The Nature and Limits of Authority_: 35). Wiki Markup
"Whenever one's belief is based on evidence that coerces belief or that constitutes it, then the belief is not based on authority" (37).
"\[W\]hen a truth is demonstrated, there is no need for authority" (60). Wiki Markup
July 1996