165262 20251219174252.0 doi 10.34739/fci.2025.06.02 sideral 146755 ART-2025-146755 eng Pérez Chico, David Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-7933-8861 Shared Grounds, Shifting Agreements: On the Liminal Structure of Deep Disagreement 2025 This paper explores the nature of deep disagreements through a reinterpretation of Wittgenstein’s concept of form of life. Rather than adopting skeptical or relativist positions, it questions the assumption that disagreement marks a failure of rational communication. The central claim is that deep disagreements are liminal in structure: they unfold at the threshold between shared and divergent backgrounds of understanding, and must be approached as such. Drawing on Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations and related remarks, the paper argues that disagreement and understanding are made possible by the same background conditions. The possibility of partial understanding depends not on reaching a final consensus, but on our ability to recognize and respond to unfamiliar ways of speaking and acting. This account shifts the focus from resolution to acknowledgment, and from epistemic closure to the ongoing conditions of mutual intelligibility. Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/AEI/AEI PID2022-142120NB-I00 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/AEI/AEI PID2022-14892NB-I00 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 5012 585 Universidad de Zaragoza Unidad Predepartam. Filosofía Área Lógica y Filosof.Ciencia 6 (2025), 17-30 Forum Contem. Issues Lang. Lit. Forum for Contemporary Issues and Literature 2391-9426 227159 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/165262/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 1768823 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/165262/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:165262 articulos driver 2025-12-19-14:44:00 ARTICLE