In discussions I’m a lot less interested in which of us is more intelligent than which of us is correct. I don’t see what’s wrong with using one’s memory.
There is nothing wrong with appeal to authority jointed with all the evidence that said authority uses in their argument, subject to disagreement and rebuttal the same as everything else. That’s not how most people appeal to authority, though.
No, you don’t have to understand why someone believes something to believe justified that they are justified in believing it. All I need is to believe justifiably that they’re generally a good judge of facts in this domain. To hold otherwise would be an extremely unreasonable standard that would prevent me from ever learning pretty much anything. Whereas in fact, I’m perfectly justified in believing in, say, the existence of Argentina, even though I’ve never observed it myself.
So put forward the arguments and demonstrations, Simplicio—either yours or Aristotle’s—but not just texts and bare authorities, because our discourses must relate to the sensible world and not to one on paper.
Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
Leonardo da Vinci
In discussions I’m a lot less interested in which of us is more intelligent than which of us is correct. I don’t see what’s wrong with using one’s memory.
There’s nothing wrong with appeal to authority either.
Wikipedia tell me that this is true.
There is nothing wrong with appeal to authority jointed with all the evidence that said authority uses in their argument, subject to disagreement and rebuttal the same as everything else. That’s not how most people appeal to authority, though.
No, you don’t have to understand why someone believes something to believe justified that they are justified in believing it. All I need is to believe justifiably that they’re generally a good judge of facts in this domain. To hold otherwise would be an extremely unreasonable standard that would prevent me from ever learning pretty much anything. Whereas in fact, I’m perfectly justified in believing in, say, the existence of Argentina, even though I’ve never observed it myself.
Galileo Galilei, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems