In this context, Thomas's "let's agree to disagree" is clearly a euphemism for each of us is wasting his time trying to change the other's mind, so let's not bo

In this context, Thomas's "let's agree to disagree" is clearly a euphemism for each of us is wasting his time trying to change the other's mind, so let's not bother any more. > Two rational people cannot agree to disagree. One of them is doing something wrong. Your first quoted sentence goes too far [0]. Rational people can and do agree to disagree over, for example, whether the universe has 10 dimensions, or 11, or 26 [1]. Your second sentence doesn't go far enough: Both (of the putatively rational people) could be doing something wrong. [0] All categorical statements are bad --- including this one. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension_(mathematics_and_physics)#Additional_dimensions http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension_(mathematics_and_phys...