But the other everyday fallacies – local authorities run schools, teachers don't need qualifications, private schools have magic DNA, a market approach to schooling automatically raises standards and a progressive education automatically lowers them – also benefit from a thorough trawl through the evidence.
"We should not allow the return of this wave of violence, which the current authorities claim everyday is under control," Rodriguez wrote, urging authorities to clarify the circumstances of the killings.
He appeals to authority and everyday observation ("experimentum" in Latin) and makes use of thought experiments and certain metaphysical assumptions, such as that "every operation of nature occurs in the most finite, ordered, shortest and best way possible for it" (Baur 1912, 75).
Run-ins with the Nashville authorities were everyday occurrences for him, and a 1987 altercation with a security guard in which he was choked with a nightstick permanently damaged his singing voice.
Since 2005, Lanlard has been running Cake Boy, a patisserie and cooking school in Wandsworth, south-west London and is best known for his Baking Mad cookery show on Channel 4. But he still speaks with authority on the everyday treat he enjoyed as a child.
People who become entrepreneurs solely to avoid authority and the everyday realities of working with people are like teenagers who, when their parents are out of town, drink themselves into oblivion.
The film addresses education reform in China, the economic gap between urban and rural populations, and the prevalence of bureaucracy and authority figures in everyday life.
The Manifesto Club, an organisation which "campaigns against the hyper-regulation of everyday life", says differing local authorities' approaches have created a "patchwork of criminal law".
He added: "According to Afghans who have taken part in this report, it is almost impossible to obtain a public service without greasing a palm; bribing authorities is part of everyday life.
In everyday life, the ability to deal comfortably with authority or accept "how things have always been done" can produce a good teammate or employee.
