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I found the following sentence in Google Online Dictionary:

a landscape in which inner and outer vision were reconciled

But it's kind of difficult for me to tell whether vision is countable or not. On one hand, vision seems to be uncountable, so even pairing it with the logical connector and won't make it plural. So, vision should be used instead of *visions. However, in this case was should be used instead of were. On the other hand, if it's countable then visions is the choice and not vision.

Could someone shed some lights on it?

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    Hello we are, in an admittedly long process, seeking to block the grammar tag, which has been misused by too many users in the past. Could you please use the[singular-vs-plural] tag instead? Thank you for your cooperation. Commented Apr 28 at 9:29
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    Interesting question. I would say it's uncountable, but as two 'kinds' are mentioned were is appropriate. Commented Apr 28 at 10:36
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    There are a bunch of similar questions e.g. toothpaste, oil, syrup, police. Generally if you have multiple different types you use the plural. Commented Apr 28 at 11:01
  • It can be countable and plural and yet the count of two be distributed across multiple singular nouns, in this case inner vision and outer vision. Compare "father and son were reconciled", which sounds perfectly natural. The only difference here is that one of the singular nouns, the first "vision", has been elided for parallelism. Commented 2 days ago

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I would analyse this as an example of nominal ellipsis, with the pre-ellipsis sentence being

a landscape in which inner [vision] and outer vision were reconciled

Both occurrences of vision are uncountable, but we are talking about two items, inner vision and outer vision, so the plural form were is required.

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    +1 I feel this interpretation is correct. The topic is Daoist-influenced Chinese Shanshui ("mountain-water") art, Commented 2 days ago

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