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|Topic=One-sided Authority Delegation

|Formulation Text=Communities A and B are said to be in a relationship of one-sided authority delegation ''iff'' community A delegates authority over topic ''x'' to community B, but community B doesn’t delegate any authority to community A.

|Authors List=Nicholas Overgaard, Mirka Loiselle,

A good example of one-sided authority delegation is the relationship between contemporary philosophers and physicists. Philosophers themselves are not physicists (though, they certainly can be), meaning they must rely on the theories accepted by physicists to conduct research about, say, the quantum entities that populate the world. As soon as a physicist accepts a new particle (e.g. the Higgs boson), philosophers too will accept the existence of that particle. However, if philosophers for some reason begin to debate the ontological status of that new particle, physicists are unlikely to pay any attention to the philosophers. So, at least in principle, it is possible for one community to delegation authority to another, but for the other to delegate no authority to the first community.

|Resource=Overgaard and Loiselle (2016)

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