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Criticism 5: I&I Has Been Criticized by Some Important Scholars

Disagreement is what happens in scholarship. If disagreement were a barometer of truth, only those in power would ever be deemed correct.

Further, this criterion lends itself to selective application, which I find rooted in the cult of the personality. To appeal to well-known scholars who disagree (while ignoring those who don’t) is one of the most basic logical fallacies: the argument from authority.

True scholarship will die in such an environment.

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