ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the concept of bias. Bias may therefore be understood as a form of personal inconsistency resulting from the inconsistent application of one’s own framework for interpreting experience. The biased judgment errs only in relation to the judgment we would have been led to expect given a particular individual’s interpretative framework. The accusation of bias is levelled after the assessment of how a particular judgment stands in relation to other judgments or declarations a person might make. As was the case with bias, there is again no direct link between any particular judgment’s being termed ‘ideological’ and its simply being factually incorrect. The effect of ideology upon knowledge is not to render it all false: much of the world is readily and accurately comprehended. Confusion about the nature of the error being made when strictly true, though ideological, beliefs are expressed can lead to some perverse responses from those who have perceived the stated beliefs as ‘ideological’.
