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An opinion is a belief that may or may not be backed up with evidence, but which cannot be proved with that evidence. An opinion is normally a subjective
Subjective

Subjective may refer to:* Subjectivity, a subject's perspective, particularly feelings, beliefs, and desires*Subjective experience, the sensory buzz and awareness associated with a conscious mind...
 statement and may be the result of an emotion or an interpretation of facts; people may draw opposing opinions from the same facts.

In economics
Economics

File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
, philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
, and other social sciences, analysis based on opinion is referred to as normative
Norm (philosophy)

Norms are Sentence s or sentence Meaning with practical, i. e. action-oriented import, the most common of which are commands, permissions, and prohibitions....
 analysis (what ought to be), as opposed to positive
Positive

Positive is a property of positivity and may refer to:...
 analysis, which is based on scientific observation (what materially is or is experimentally demonstrable).

Historically, the distinction of demonstrated knowledge
Knowledge

Knowledge is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation....
 and opinion was articulated by Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 philosophers.






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If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. --John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859).






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An opinion is a belief that may or may not be backed up with evidence, but which cannot be proved with that evidence. An opinion is normally a subjective
Subjective

Subjective may refer to:* Subjectivity, a subject's perspective, particularly feelings, beliefs, and desires*Subjective experience, the sensory buzz and awareness associated with a conscious mind...
 statement and may be the result of an emotion or an interpretation of facts; people may draw opposing opinions from the same facts.

In economics
Economics

File:Ballard Farmers' Market - vegetables.jpgEconomics is the Social sciences that studies the Production theory basics, Distribution , and Consumption of Good and Service ....
, philosophy
Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
, and other social sciences, analysis based on opinion is referred to as normative
Norm (philosophy)

Norms are Sentence s or sentence Meaning with practical, i. e. action-oriented import, the most common of which are commands, permissions, and prohibitions....
 analysis (what ought to be), as opposed to positive
Positive

Positive is a property of positivity and may refer to:...
 analysis, which is based on scientific observation (what materially is or is experimentally demonstrable).

Historically, the distinction of demonstrated knowledge
Knowledge

Knowledge is defined in the Oxford English Dictionary as expertise, and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject, what is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information or awareness or familiarity gained by experience of a fact or situation....
 and opinion was articulated by Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek

Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
 philosophers. Plato
Plato

Plato , was a Classical Greece Greeks philosopher, mathematician, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Platonic Academy in Ancient Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the western world....
's analogy of the divided line is a well-known illustration of the distinction between knowledge and opinion. Opinions can be persuasive, but only the facts they are based on can be said to be true or false.

See also

  • Egocentrism
    Egocentrism

    In psychology, egocentrism is defined asa) the incomplete differentiation of the self and the world, including other people andb) the tendency to perceive, understand and interpret the world in terms of the self....
  • Philosophy
    Philosophy

    Philosophy is the study of general problems concerning matters such as existence, knowledge, truth, beauty, justice, validity, mind, and language....
  • Platonic epistemology
    Platonic epistemology

    Platonic epistemology holds that knowledge is innate, so that learning is the development of ideas buried deep in the soul, often under the mid-wife-like guidance of an interrogator....
  • Politics
    Politics

    Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions. The term is generally applied to behaviour within civil governments, but politics has been observed in all human group interactions, including corporation, academia, and religion institutions....
  • Fact
    Fact

    A fact is something said to be true or supposed to have happened, example: Kiira is mean, FACT. An idea becomes a fact after competent people have tested a hypothesis through the scientific method....
  • Logic
    Logic

    Logic is the study of the principles of valid demonstration and inference. Logic is a branch of philosophy, a part of the classical Trivium . The word derives from Greek language ?????? , fem....
  • Logical fallacy
  • Perspective
    Perspective

    Perspective may mean:Literally, in visual topics:* Perspective , the way in which objects appear to the eye.* Perspective , representing the effects of visual perspective in drawings...
  • Bias
    Bias

    Bias is a term used to describe a tendency or preference towards a particular perspective , ideology or result, especially when the tendency interferes with the ability to be impartial, unprejudiced, or Objectivity ....
  • Debate
    Debate

    Debate or debating is a formal method of interactive and representational argument. Debate is a broader form of argument than logical argument, which only examine the consistency from axiom, and factual argument, which only examine what is or isn't the case or rhetoric which is technique of persuasion....

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