Tamsen Webster explains why people talking past each other aren't really disagreeing about facts. They're operating from different definitions of reality itself. Finding partial agreement within a shared boundary can still move things forward.
The issue is this: when two people are in different buckets about what even is reality, they're not disagreeing about the facts. They're standing on different ground about what the facts are. We've all been there. We don't have to agree on everything everywhere all at once for all time in order to make progress, in order to move forward, to explore something together, or even just to understand where each other is coming from. Inside a boundary, inside a definition, partial agreement is still agreement. We can say, I agree with you here, I just don't agree with all of it.
