Sympathetic by Suspending One’s Disbelief

Nothing is so difficult in philosophical writing as to get people to be sympathetic enough to what one is saying to understand what it is. Perhaps nobody will ever understand a philosophical book of any depth without, initially, believing it, or at least suspending his disbelief. Otherwise he will never grasp what the writer is trying to convey.

From R. M. Hare’s Moral Thinking, Chapter 4, (Oxford, 1981)

I think the same thing goes for political blogs.