[WikiEN-l] Re: Opinion of the many?

Tim Starling t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au
Tue Nov 30 08:49:57 UTC 2004


R E Broadley wrote:
> What is it Socrates said? "The opinion of the many is not important. It 
> is the opinion of the experts in their field which is important." - 
> Obviously he originally said this in Greek, but I did get a native Greek 
> speaker to translate the original sentence for me. It flows better in 
> Greek though.
> 
> Why am I quoting this? What the professional iridologist an expert in 
> their field? I don't know this either, but if he was, I would suggest 
> his opinion should probably outweigh that of the majority of non-experts 
> in this field. The question remains: was the debate between experts and 
> experts, or experts and non-experts?
> 

Hey nice flame-bait, I like. Three bites in as many minutes. Keep up the 
good work Rebroad.

-- Tim Starling





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