Not simply by following an author's arguments, but only by meeting them as well, can the reader ultimately reach significant agreement or disagreement with his author.
First is: It is necessary to acknowledgeg the emotions you bring to a dispute, or those that arise in the course of it.
Second you must make your own assumptions explicit.
Third, an attempt at impartiality is a good antidote for the blindness that is almost inevitable in partnership.
To become well read in every sense of the word, one must know how to use whatever skill one possesses with discrimination- by reading every book according to its merits.
First is: It is necessary to acknowledgeg the emotions you bring to a dispute, or those that arise in the course of it.
Second you must make your own assumptions explicit.
Third, an attempt at impartiality is a good antidote for the blindness that is almost inevitable in partnership.
To become well read in every sense of the word, one must know how to use whatever skill one possesses with discrimination- by reading every book according to its merits.