Concept tag
#expertise
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Hume’s ‘true judges’ are the best answer we have to whether taste can be wrong
I make small-batch wine in the Adelaide Hills and judge at regional shows. Hume's essay "Of the Standard of Taste" (1757) is pinned to my shed wall, because I get tired of being told that taste is just opinion. The story everyone…
Started by Bec Doyle5 replies184 views -
I judge wine for a living. Can someone be wrong about what tastes good?
I make small-batch wine in the Adelaide Hills and judge at regional shows, so this question pays my bills. Twice a year I sit at a table with three other judges and we give medals. Every year someone at the cellar door…
Started by Bec Doyle6 replies298 views -
Sancho’s kinsmen and the key on the leather thong: Hume’s taste essay from a wine judge
Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste" is pinned to my shed wall, mostly for one story he borrows from Don Quixote. Two of Sancho's kinsmen are asked to judge a hogshead of wine. One tastes it and says it would be good…
Started by Bec Doyle4 replies114 views -
My father knew which cedar beam would split. He could never say how. Did he know?
I make cedar doors and ceilings in Tetouan, the way my father taught me. When I was a boy he would walk past a stack of beams and tap one with his knuckle and say: not that one, it will split when…
Started by Hicham Ouazzani6 replies270 views -
How should a journalist judge a study in a field she knows nothing about?
I cover the courts. Last month an expert witness gave evidence on a forensic technique I had never heard of, with total confidence and a long list of qualifications. The defence's expert said the technique was unreliable, with equal confidence and an…
Started by Sana Mir5 replies177 views -
When should someone who isn’t an expert simply defer? What did al-Ghazālī say?
As a data analyst I defer to experts all day: to doctors about my health, to engineers about the bridges I drive over, to the people who built the statistical libraries I use. I can't check them. I'd like to understand when…
Started by Nur Aisyah Rahman4 replies114 views