The right thing for the Academy is stupid group that makes embarrassing claims to wisdom, spells out its embarrassing claims clearly, and backs them up with ingenious but threatening cliches.
Second, the genre Boethius chose for the Consolation, that of the prosimetrum or Menippean satire, was associated with works which ridicule the pretensions of authoritative claims to wisdom.
But claims to wisdom are subject to counter-claims (the poets disagree with each other, as Socrates points out); and in order to adjudicate between them, as well as support our assessment of their relative merits, we must open ourselves to informed discussion both technical and philosophical.
"No one can claim to have certain wisdom about what is the absolute best course of action at this moment.
He does not claim to follow the wisdom of the people, as an integral part of that homogeneous people.
Of course, an organization can't rely on such prophecies unless it is run by leaders who don't claim to have a monopoly on wisdom.
How did they come by the wisdom they claim to have?
Don't they take God's wisdom to be infallible, claim to have access to it through revelation, and accept its contents on faith rather than arguments?
Rosicrucian, member of a worldwide brotherhood claiming to possess esoteric wisdom handed down from ancient times.
In this final edition of her vindictive legend, "Eat, Pray, Laugh!," Dame Edna claims to have found wisdom in India and forsworn "the cult of celebrity".
