Eubulides wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > > Habitual ex cathedra pronouncements are even worse.
Ex Cathedra, properly used, refers to a pronouncement from an authority who has some sort of authority to impose the judgment on others. It is not properly applied to statements which have no force other than the willing response of others. I would give such a response to a student, for example, only if it did _not_ affect his/her grade. I have no power to enforce my pronouncements on anyone on this list or elsewhere. Nor are they even intended to be persuasive but merely to propose a position for consideration. They are whatever the reader chooses to make of them. Carrol
