At no point did I invoke "appeal to authority." Rather, we navigate a social space via shared points. If we are discussing literature in the English language, i

At no point did I invoke "appeal to authority." Rather, we navigate a social space via shared points. If we are discussing literature in the English language, it is useful to know who Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Ernest Hemmingway are. Or if we are talking about Bollywood, it is useful to know who Aishwarya Rai or Akshay Kumar are. Or we discuss basketball, it is useful to know who Lebron James is. None of that involves an appeal to authority.