Just came across Gadamer saying something similar to the gist behind yesterday's post.

...[T]he central issue of the place of conceptual thinking as such. I think that without some agreement, some basic agreement, no disagreement is possible. In my opinion, the primacy of disagreement is a prejudice. This is what Heidegger called die Sorge fur die erkannte Erkenntnis; that is, the preoccupation with "cognized cognition," the commitment to certitude, the primacy of epistemology, the monologue of the scientists. My own perspective is always the hermeneutics of the whole world. We have to become aware of the limitations of the methodology of the sciences or the epistemology of the monologue. Beneath the structures of the opinion-making technology on which our society is based one finds a more basic experience of communication involving some agreement.

It's from an interview on his agreements with Strauss.  ¶ 12:12 AM