[ExI] rational hypocrites

[John Clark]

On Sun, Aug 5, 2018 at 12:27 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Is believing in an authority rationalism?  Depends on the authority
>

It's inductive reasoning. If the authority has a history of usually
correctly reporting the facts (New York Times, Washington Post, Science,
Nature) then they will probably continue to do so and be correct about what
they say today too. If the authority has a history of never being correct (
Alex Jones, QAnon) or seldom being correct ( Breitbart, Fox News) then they
will probably continue with that too and what they say today is most likely
incorrect.

John K Clark
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