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Why are there opinions?  Isn’t everything a fact?
 
HectorGearLive
Posted: 02 November 2004 07:07 AM     [ Ignore ]  
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If something is a certain description, it just is, right?
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Andreux
Posted: 02 November 2004 07:56 AM   [ # 1 ]     [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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I think you’re wrong <~~~~~~ And that’s a fact. Haha, jk
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RayaniFoxmur
Posted: 02 November 2004 08:28 AM   [ # 2 ]     [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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If that’s true then where to beliefs fit in?  Opinions like “I like that haircut” or “I think our current president’s an #######.”.  Facts are “The haircut is a short haircut” or “George Bush is our current president”.  There’s the difrerence.
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HectorGearLive
Posted: 02 November 2004 10:22 AM   [ # 3 ]     [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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[quote author=“RayaniFoxmur”]If that’s true then where to beliefs fit in?  Opinions like “I like that haircut” or “I think our current president’s an ******.”.  Facts are “The haircut is a short haircut” or “George Bush is our current president”.  There’s the difrerence.

“I like that haircut” is a fact.  And if the haircut looks good, it looks good.  :mischeif:
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Andreux
Posted: 02 November 2004 10:58 AM   [ # 4 ]     [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Beauty is NOT in the eye of the beholder!! If something looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck! And you know, it probably *is* objectively a duck!!!!! Similarly, if something looks pretty, then it probably *is* objectively pretty!!
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MSP
Posted: 02 November 2004 01:06 PM   [ # 5 ]     [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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As I get older I see more gray and less black and white…
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RayaniFoxmur
Posted: 02 November 2004 01:56 PM   [ # 6 ]     [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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[quote author=“HectorGearLive”][quote author=“RayaniFoxmur”]If that’s true then where to beliefs fit in?  Opinions like “I like that haircut” or “I think our current president’s an ******.”.  Facts are “The haircut is a short haircut” or “George Bush is our current president”.  There’s the difrerence.

“I like that haircut” is a fact.  And if the haircut looks good, it looks good.  :mischeif:

Ok, I should clairify more.  “That haircut looks nice on you” is an opinion.  Concidering the next person could come up and go “That haircut is completely gross and makes you look like a gay man in heat.”  (And yes I have heard that phrase before.)

How’s that?  😛
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MSP
Posted: 02 November 2004 02:20 PM   [ # 7 ]     [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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[quote author=“RayaniFoxmur”]“That haircut is completely gross and makes you look like a gay man in heat.”

Trying to visualize this one…  Andreux, can you help me out?  😊
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Antman22
Posted: 02 November 2004 03:35 PM   [ # 8 ]     [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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“The haircut is a short haircut” technically isn’t a fact. “short” is a relative term. what you may think is short may be long to someone else. i dont know why i’m saying this. i’d just rather not study.
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MSP
Posted: 03 November 2004 01:29 AM   [ # 9 ]     [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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Yeah, “That person has hair” would be about the only phrase you could say was a fact.  Even the color could be debated.  :?
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