In thus pointing out certain respects in which philosophy resembles literature more than science, I do not mean, of course, to imply that it would be well for philosophy if it ceased to aim at scientific rigor.

Rational science treats its credit notes as always redeemable on demand while non-rational authoritarianism regards the demand for the redemption of its paper as a disloyal lack of faith. From his work Reason and Nature:
To be sure the vast majority of people who are untrained can accept the results of science only on authority.

Cohen. He was father to Felix S. Morris Raphael Cohen (July 25 1880 – January 28 1947) was an American philosopher lawyer and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis.