Overcoming Disagreement

In an ideal world, disagreements would not exist. It's a provocative statement, but hopefully readers of this blog will have been exposed enough to the reasoning to accept it provisionally. Even Eliezer's recent explanations of his various disagreements largely come down to making cases for why his disputants should agree with him, not for why they should all continue to disagree. When two people disagree, and they come together to try to reach agreement, they have much to gain. First, some o