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So too, for some, does its sense of its own authority, the concept of the magisterium, the body of teaching that is authoritative for all times.
The Schocken family, which has owned the paper since 1935, is not commandingly wealthy, yet it invests lavishly in the quality of a paper that is authoritative in its news columns, left-wing in its ideology, and insistently oppositional in its temper.
He is busy promoting his book on how he thinks we should be recognised in the constitution but has he thought about how a place at the table might be achieved for our people in a way that is authoritative and enduring?
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Pollock threw and flicked paint into the air and somehow it landed on his canvases in ways that are authoritative and convincing.
And he learns by digging — by repetitive searching until he finds the papers that are authoritative.
For example, it may be said that the standards that are authoritative in a society are those that reasonable and well-informed members of the society would generally accept.
As just noted, a moral relativist could make sense of this by supposing that it is the fundamental standards of a moral code that are authoritative for people in a society that accepts that code.
Moreover, not only do people typically belong to more than one group, as defined by the aforementioned criteria, the values that are authoritative in each group a person belongs to may not always be the same.
The possible agreement among various practical standpoints is not guaranteed by facts about the nature of reason or the principles of reason that are authoritative for all rational agents.
Any justification we could give would appeal to values that are authoritative for us, not them, and no appeal to logic or facts alone would give them a reason to accept our justification.
A different response would be to say that the standards that are authoritative for a society are the ones persons have agreed to follow as a result of some negotiation or bargaining process (as seen above, Harman has argued that we should understand some moral judgments in these terms).
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