winston123180 writes:
If something is absolute in its authority, then the only way this can be established is by the things that this authority claims about itself.
No, it can never be established on the word of the authority alone. There are two possibilities: a supposed absolute authority ("AA") is indeed a real absolute authority (AA), or it isn't. In both cases the "AA" says of itself it is an AA. In one case we are justified in believing the AA's claim about itself, in the other we are not. But, without outside knowledge, we have no way of knowing which case we are dealing with, because they are indistinguishable.
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