Rerum cognoscere causas. Does the most accurate representation of natural content accessible to human consciousness reside in the superset of ideas obtained by the conjunction of all subsets localized by status and visibility, where each subset contains the activities and proclamations of socially and sociologically cognate professionals, and all subset elements possess analogous economic attributes?

Ratio decidendi. How much trust should we place in the pronouncements of people that have similar high-level interests and salaries, and work for similar high-level institutions?

Res ipsa loquitur. First principles are more fluid than they may at first appear.