Does God exist?
Has no right answer. Question is Not Even Wrong.
Does [x] have authority?
Has no right answer. Question is Not Even Wrong.
I suspect, no, not a coincidence.
I should check to make sure what I think I think about authority is what I actually think about it.
An authority is someone I should obey. A physical authority commands my actions. An intellectual authority commands my thoughts.
In reality, even if I should obey them, the reason is not authority. A physical 'authority' commands my actions through either through physical coercion or because I promised them something in a contractual exchange. An intellectual 'authority' is only an authority if they have the right arguments, and thus I follow the argument, not the authority.
I should also mention that the reason I suspect they're not a coincidence is because the logical structures feel the same. They feel not-even-wrong in the same way. But I have no explicit words to explain how or why.
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