ABSTRACT
The preceding discussion was intended to clarify the relationship between two rival intellectual temperaments. Most people, particularly those of an intellectual bent, do not settle upon their opinions and ideals one by one but rather find themselves attracted to clusters of them. Adherents of each such cluster feel an affinity with each other that transcends their particular points of agreement. Conversely, they sense that antagonistic clusters are informed by a generally alien outlook and that the tension between them is irreducible to specific points of contention. The arguments make few converts because of their failure to address what actually drives us. As the true breadth of our disagreements resists articulation, it remains unclear what maintains these clusters’ integrity. Why do certain intuitions seem so interrelated, and why is their recombination into novel clusters relatively rare?
