What is the source of philosophy's authority? Is simply tradition? Or logical

What is the source of philosophy's authority? Is simply tradition? Or logical

What is the source of philosophy's authority? Is simply tradition? Or logical deductions from some common-sense axioms? Or an appealing fit between reasoned arguments and our contemporary cultural preference? Or maybe a bit of all three, with the other two taking up the slack, when the first one looks inadequate?

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