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Argument from infinite authority.
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RE: Argument from infinite authority.
Since all humans are genetically and physiologically quite alike, it seems reasonable that amost or ll humans would share certain instincts derived from perceptual and cognative prejudices and liimits that results from the physiological properties of our brain. So even if all humans were to instinctively agree on certain things, that does not in the least way suggest any authority other than the highly contingent path of our evolution.

MysticKnight does not think through what the nature of the underlying mechanism for the things he cherry picks might tell us, and like brain dead christian jump directly to some "high authroity"
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Argument from infinite authority. - by MysticKnight - July 20, 2012 at 1:06 pm
RE: Argument from infinite authority. - by Anomalocaris - July 20, 2012 at 1:11 pm
RE: Argument from infinite authority. - by jonb - July 20, 2012 at 1:25 pm
RE: Argument from infinite authority. - by Anomalocaris - July 20, 2012 at 1:30 pm
RE: Argument from infinite authority. - by MysticKnight - July 20, 2012 at 1:32 pm
RE: Argument from infinite authority. - by Tempus - July 20, 2012 at 1:34 pm
RE: Argument from infinite authority. - by MysticKnight - July 20, 2012 at 1:37 pm
RE: Argument from infinite authority. - by Anomalocaris - July 20, 2012 at 1:42 pm
RE: Argument from infinite authority. - by MysticKnight - July 20, 2012 at 1:45 pm
RE: Argument from infinite authority. - by Anomalocaris - July 20, 2012 at 2:39 pm
RE: Argument from infinite authority. - by genkaus - July 20, 2012 at 2:22 pm

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