"This will be short, and of course, oversimplified. So first, a caveat: Naturally, everyone exhibits all the traits I'm about to describe, but the relative importance of these traits in a person's character defines the difference in the left/right ways of knowing. To isolate them, distill them into a left/right epistemological essence, is helpful in order to understand what is peculiar about the right wing worldview, which emphasizes certain epistemological concepts that we don't.