By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
Is there really any good reason not to say that, although x is not an authority, but rather a source of authority, x nonetheless has authority?
May we not say, for example, that, although God is not an authority, but rather the implicit, primal, ontic source of authority, God nonetheless has authority, indeed, has the supreme authority that only the implicit, primal, ontic source of authority could conceivably have?
Or, again, even if we deny that experience and reason are an authority, because they are rather the implicit, primal noetic source of authority, may we not still affirm that experience and reason have authority, in fact, have the supreme authority that could belong only to the implicit, primal noetic source of authority?
September 2000
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