Couldn’t resist adding a complaint about the abuse of the term ‘guru’ as a term of …abuse. It represents in fact an exponent of a perfectly respectable form of expertise transmission in non-rational domains. Drift into abuse of authority by such an exponent is perhaps more likely because the method relies on authority rather than argument, but that doesn’t mean that the concept is invalid, or indeed that there is any other method possible in those domains.
Couldn’t resist adding a complaint about the abuse of the term ‘guru’ as a term of …abuse. It represents in fact an exponent of a perfectly respectable form of expertise transmission in non-rational domains. Drift into abuse of authority by such an exponent is perhaps more likely because the method relies on authority rather than argument, but that doesn’t mean that the concept is invalid, or indeed that there is any other method possible in those domains.