On encountering Charles Lassiter’s article (2024a) “Reading the Signs: From Dyadic to Triadic Views for Identifying Experts,” I felt totally in tune with his vision. A few years ago, I too had published an article in the Italian journal Prometeo on the crisis of competence (Censon 2020) which, although it did not have the theoretical breadth of the one written by Lassiter, touched on the same points. … [please read below the rest of the article].