How is ‘everyone an authority’ different from ‘there are no authorities?’
Well, using your definition of authority as “person with opinions that others agree with”, these statements would translate as follows:
‘everyone is an authority’ becomes “Every person has opinions that others agree with.”
‘there are no authorities’ becomes “No person has opinions that others agree with.”
The problem is that you seem to want to use the connotations of the word “authority”, but you aren’t explicitly including them in your definition.
What’s your definition?.
I don’t use the word ‘authority’ in reference to people, because it communicates meaning badly. I’d prefer to use a word like ‘expert’ or a phrase like ‘informed on the subject’.
Someone is more of an expert on something than someone else if they have more useful experience on it.
Someone is more informed of a topic than someone else if they possess more accurate information about it.
You keep arguing about definitions and you’ve still not uttered any concrete disagreement, you still seem to be just playing with words.
Well, using your definition of authority as “person with opinions that others agree with”, these statements would translate as follows:
‘everyone is an authority’ becomes “Every person has opinions that others agree with.”
‘there are no authorities’ becomes “No person has opinions that others agree with.”
The problem is that you seem to want to use the connotations of the word “authority”, but you aren’t explicitly including them in your definition.
I don’t use the word ‘authority’ in reference to people, because it communicates meaning badly. I’d prefer to use a word like ‘expert’ or a phrase like ‘informed on the subject’.
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>. See the “Show help” button for more.Someone is more of an expert on something than someone else if they have more useful experience on it. Someone is more informed of a topic than someone else if they possess more accurate information about it.
You keep arguing about definitions and you’ve still not uttered any concrete disagreement, you still seem to be just playing with words.