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Avery Easton on Theories

There is always the danger with any theory of finding it so flattering to one’s personal biases and convenient to one’s personal interests that one applies it even where it doesn’t work.

— Avery Easton

Author T.L. JamesPosted on August 4, 2025August 3, 2025Categories Avery Easton QuotesTags Avery Easton, Experts

Avery Easton on Infallibility

People who revere ‘experts’ never consider whether the years of study and practice they view as ‘credentializing’ a given expert may have been in the service of ideas or doctrines or schools of thought which are factually incorrect or even morally abhorrent. Error doesn’t become infallibility through perseverance.

– Avery Easton

Author T.L. JamesPosted on June 27, 2025June 25, 2025Categories Avery Easton Quotes, CharactersTags Avery Easton, Experts

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