Equal weight view

We have learned that the people one counts as peers on a given issue are more rare than one would initially have thought, and very often in agreement with oneself. So in messy real-world cases (involving basic political disagreement, for example), the equal weight view permits one's independent thinking on many matters to have significant weight. lt also requires one's opinions to be swamped by the majority when one counts a very great many of one's advisors as peers. That is a little odd, but the reasoning is that we should learn to live with the oddness.

Adam Elga; Reflection and Disagreement; Nous, Vol XLl, No 3, Blackwell Publishing, Boston MA & Oxford UK, Sept. 2007