A Response to

The major point of this article is captured by Gadmaner, in one of his frequent exchanges with Habermas: “… all social and political manifestations of will are dependent on building up common convictions through rhetoric. This implies—and I think that this belongs to the concept of reason—that one must always reckon with the possibility that opposing convictions, whether in the individual or the social sphere, could be right” (p. 206, translated by McCarthy, 1978).