A Challenge to Impersonalism of Philosophic Space: From Red Mars

"The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. X claims a, Y claims b. They make arguments to support their claims, with any number of points. But when their listeners remember the discussion, what matters is simply that X believes a, and Y believes b. People then form their judgment on what they think of X and Y."

Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars (Bantam Spectra, 1993), p 77.