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    Epistemic authority over practical matters requires not j... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The good person's views should be regarded as authoritative by other members of the community.

    Epistemic authority over practical matters requires not just virtue but also publicly verifiable criteria, which the 'good person' standard lacks.

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    • 1.Practical decisions affect others' lives, requiring accountability mechanisms that 'good person' judgments cannot provide due to their subjectivity.
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    • 2.Public verifiability enables error-correction and institutional learning; virtue assessments lack systematic feedback loops for improvement.
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    • 3.Moral disagreement persists among virtuous people, so virtue alone cannot justify why one good person's judgment should override another's.
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    • 1.All criteria purporting objectivity rest on prior value judgments; quantifiable metrics are no less contestable than virtue assessments.
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    • 2.Virtue includes practical wisdom (phronesis), which inherently involves contextual judgment—publicly verifiable criteria often miss crucial particulars.
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    • 3.History shows credential systems become captured by interests; trustworthy character may better serve public good than formal procedural verification.
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