0 shared interests, beliefs, or opinions between two people or groups of people who disagree about most other subjects: --
1 an area of shared interests or opinions held by two or more people or groups: --
In that debate one can discern common ground beneath the conflicting viewpoints.
When a party failed to find common ground upon which all their members could stand, these conventions often broke up as the losers bolted.
Both adults and children as young as two rely on repetition as they talk to place information in common ground.
But before any information can be added to common ground, speakers must agree on what the other person said.
Its interests lie in the common ground between the biological and social sciences.
Although their positions may differ, there appears to be some overlap and the model that follows attempts to integrate this common ground.
My own view is that there is no reversal, deliberate or indeliberate : searching for understanding of belief was common ground for both thinkers.
Although all these accounts share some common ground, important differences exist.