Correct use of thirteen dimensions

Hello. You are looking for criteria for the individual, and here I disagree with you. As far as I am concerned, things are examined on the merits of the matter and not on the individual. If they are right in my opinion, I will accept them, and if not, then I will not. The question of authority is a different question. Authority like that of the Sanhedrin gives validity to decisions by the very fact that they were made in a particular institution, sometimes even in cases where they are incorrect (it is indeed a complicated issue of the one who errs in the mitzvah of listening to the words of the sages at the beginning of the tractate of Horyot). But today it is a hypothetical question because no one, person or institution, has authority.