Dialectic Exercise on ‘the General Bias’

Patrick Brown, Catherine King, Paul St. Amour

The assembled text is Insight, Chapter 7, section 8, on the “general bias” of common sense. First, I attempt to identify key counterpositions that previously guided my thinking about general bias. Second, I identify a position that can be developed. Third, I attempt to indicate the view that would result from reversing those counterpositions and promoting that position.