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Oh ok. I'll rewrite it for you : "In my opinion the late Reverend, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was America's last great philosopher, perhaps the world's last great philosopher." So you deciphered that a person when they say something is making an opinion? Good job. I deciphered that it was...

The late Reverend, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was America's last great philosopher, perhaps the world's last great philosopher. I am just wondering upon which authority that idea is sustained. Why, it is the authority of existential opinion. Oh ok. I'll rewrite it for you : "In my opinion the ...

The late Reverend, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was America's last great philosopher, perhaps the world's last great philosopher.

I am just wondering upon which authority that idea is sustained.