"Though it does, at times, feel as if she has cherry-picked the most interesting ideas from authoritative works on marriage, she also makes academic texts accessible to a wide audience," the "sex guru" Suzi Godson wrote in the Times.
Dr. Steven Weinberg is perhaps the world's most authoritative proponent of the idea that physics is hurtling toward a "final theory," a complete explanation of nature's particles and forces that will endure as the bedrock of all science forevermore.
(Raz 1986) This conception of the legitimacy of authority flows from the idea that "authoritative directives should be based on reasons which already independently apply to the subjects of the directives and are relevant to their action in the circumstances covered by the directive" (Raz 1986).
The high specificity regarding the parenting dimensions is in line with the idea of authoritative parenting being a protective factor for mental health in adolescence [ 45].
However, Wes appeared to be using this phrase as a way to introduce the ideas of an authoritative external voice to strengthen his argument.
Relatedly, the Symbolic big Other also can refer to (often fantasmatic/fictional) ideas of anonymous authoritative power and/or knowledge (whether that of God, Nature, History, Society, State, Party, Science, or the analyst as the "subject supposed to know" [sujet supposé savoir] as per Lacan's distinctive account of analytic transference).
You can start by looking at generic sources like an encyclopedia or Wikipedia, but you need to fact check your ideas with more authoritative sources after you generally understand your subject.
"He was constantly distancing himself from the idea of single authoritative authorship," he said, adding: "His most important collaborator was really time — be it through mold or insects or other organic processes, allowing things to continue to change.
"The myth has proved so enduring that you will still read, in many apparently authoritative sources, that the original idea for converting the palace into a hospital came from the king".
In the case discussed in this paper the teacher chose a documentary style video, drawing on David Attenborough as an authoritative and knowledgeable communicator of scientific ideas, to promote the curriculum goal of scientific communication.
