Tag

Disagreement

Entries tagged disagreement.

3 entries

Assumptions versus Conclusions

A policy dispute where both sides accept the same facts is often really a disagreement over one unstated premise, and locating it means finding the specific claim whose denial stops the stated argument from reaching its conclusion.

5 min

Concept

Epistemic humility versus relativism

admitting a belief of yours could be wrong concedes something about you as a knower, while relativism denies that there is a single fact to be wrong about, and running the two together turns a virtue of inquiry into a reason to stop inquiring.

6 min

Concept

Steelmanning

You earn the right to criticize a position only after you can state it so well that its defenders would sign your summary, and building that version is what separates engaging a view from performing against it.

6 min