Fact vs. Opinion....?
My daughter came home yesterday with a homework assignment on the differences on Facts and Opinions, she is in 3rd grade. One of the sentences was " I like Pizza" ....she put down that it was an opinion where as I said it was a fact. She told me today that her teacher said that that sentence was indeed an opinion....who is right?? Her or Me? If the sentence read " John likes Pizza" I would say that was an opinion because you're talking about someone else but anything pertaining to yourself is a fact, correct?? Please I need help deciding this, I don't know who's right or wrong...just want to see what other people think of this... Thank you!!
Is color an opinion or a fact?
Let's say there is a red car on the street and thousands of people see it each day. If each individual person perceives colors every so slightly differently, and also considering that there are those who are colorblind (colorblindness can be not seeing any colors or "mistaking" colors for other colors, i think...), is the perceived color by each individual a fact or an opinion?
Are theses Fact or Opinion?
My English teacher gave theses to us, I've read everything about fact and opinion and still can't figure these out. I know facts need supporting details, and I know opinions are what the writer thinks is true. Can you state which of the below are fact or opinion. Thanks 1.Drama is intended to be performed on the stage. 2.Shakespeare plays are the most well-known. 3. Research is based on facts. 4.Good research often benefits society. 5Good research is always a slow process. 6Using the Discussion Board with your classmates is the best way to learn. 7Engaging in a discussion stimulates thought 8Technical writing is used in almost every profession.
Is "I like x" a fact or an opinion?
Is "I like x" a fact or an opinion?In my English class, my professor asked if “I like pizza” was a fact or an opinion . To me, if she says she likes pizza, it's true, she likes pizza - it's a fact. (Provided that she's not lying) According to my teacher, it's an opinion. Why?Your teacher is wrong. “I like pizza” is a fact, not an opinion.An opinion is a statement the truth value of which may vary from person to person. For instance, the statement “Pizza is good” may be true when I say it, but my classmate who prefers burgers may opine the logical inverse, which is that “Pizza is not good”. Both speakers are being truthful; since the scope of applicability of our respective opinions do not overlap, the statements do not conflict.The logical inverse of a statement of fact cannot be true if the fact is true. So when your teacher states “I like pizza”, try stating the logical inverse: “No, you don’t like pizza.” It would be ridiculous for you to state an opinion about your teacher’s tastes.That “Pizza is good” is her opinion. That she holds that opinion, that is a fact.(I strongly encourage you not to try persuading your teacher. My experience of instructors like that is that many of them can’t tell where their opinions end and demonstrable fact begins. Once she started defending a demonstrably wrong viewpoint, she was vested in it, and you’d do well to be through her class before you challenge it too forcefully.)
Can a fact become an opinion?
In the way I use the words ‘fact’ and ‘opinion’, no, they cannot. A fact is something that can be either objectively true or objectively false. ‘The sun is made of goat cheese’ is a fact. It just happens to be a fact that is false. ‘The sun is made primarily of hydrogen and helium’ is also a fact, in this case a true one. ‘It will rain tomorrow’ is also a fact. We will not know if it is a true fact or a false fact for sure until tomorrow comes. ‘There are intelligent creatures living in the Andromeda galaxy’ is a fact which we may never know if it is true or not. It’s still a fact.Opinions can be neither objectively true nor objectively false.‘Red is a pretty color’ is an opinion. It’s true only if you think it is true.‘Red is an ugly color’ is also an opinion. This statement cannot really be objectively true or objectively false.‘Red is a color that most people think is pretty’ is a fact about an opinion. Either most people think red is a pretty color or less than most people think red is a pretty color.“It’s bad that Donald Trump was elected president” is an opinion about a fact. It’s true that Trump was elected president. Whether this is bad or not is a matter of opinion.There are a number of statements that can be interpreted as either facts or opinions depending on the precise definitions of the words used to express the statement. ‘It is bad for your health to eat shards of glass’ is a fact if you define ‘bad for your health’ to mean ‘likely to make you die’. If one uses a different meaning of the word ‘bad’, the statement could be interpreted as an opinion.
Is talent an opinion or a fact?
Well, talent is being gifted in some skill that can be considered special, or just in general being very good at something. I think talent can often be fact, because some people's amazing skill is just undeniable and can't be proven to be talentless. Such as Beyonce, even though I don't like her music or listen to her very much I still say she has talent, I may not like her but I won't say she's talentless. But when it comes down to it, it can also depend on how someone sees "real talent" and just how much of a perfectionist they are. I think talent is usually fact though. You may dislike something, but that does mean you can say they have no talent. It's just like with food, you may not like the taste but you can't say it's "terrible food" (but then to you, it is terrible food... so I guess talent can be opinion in a way).
Is beauty a fact or an opinion?
Beauty is a fact while attractiveness is an opinion. Beauty relates to mathematics as beauty is having the perfect proportional ratios between different elements of the body.
Can an opinion become a fact?
Facts are propositions that you think should be useful to others, independent of you as an observer.Scientific facts are facts that apply to the natural world. For example, "I am wearing white socks" can be a scientific fact, regardless of whether that proposition is verified by repeatable careful observation or measurement. Similarly, "I like chocolate ice cream" is a fact that can be stored in a demographic database.In contrast, "chocolate ice cream tastes good" is an opinion. "Tastes good" is not an intrinsic attribute of chocolate ice cream, and it is dependent on your perceptions as an observer.Statements of fact are an act of intent. The quality of particular facts is dependent on a lack of intent to deceive, and on reliability. Independent verification can improve the reliability, and thus, the quality of facts.Standard/conventional definitions of 'fact' commonly involves a degenerate, circular reference to 'true' (Definitions of fact - OneLook Dictionary Search Definitions of truth - OneLook Dictionary Search ); i.e., 'facts' are propositions that are true, and 'truth' is propositions that are factual.If everyone agrees that 'chocolate ice cream tastes good', then it does indeed become a fact, in the sense that chocolate ice cream tastes good, independent of you as an observer. This can be a slippery slope, since if some people decide that chocolate ice cream does not taste good, then the observer dependence, and characterization as an opinion, returns.
Is "I like ice cream" an opinion or fact?
That would be a fact. To say something like "Ice cream is the best type of dessert" would be an opinion. --------------------------
Is racism an opinion?
All “isms” are concatenations of opinions, so racism contains opinions, but it is confusing to call racism itself an opinion.A question such as “Is racism true?” would be less puzzling if racism were an opinion because opinions can be true or false. But when you ask, “Is racism true?” you set off a further set of questions, foremost among them being “What aspect of racism do you mean?”If you are asking whether it is “fact” or “opinion” that there is a hierarchy of races, then whatever answers you get will be opinions. It is possible that one, or some of those opinions will be true. So, if you want to call a true opinion a “fact,” and distinguish it from an “opinion,” then you have cleared up some of the problems of answering the question, “Is racism an opinion?”But there are still difficulties here. One of these is that it is probably impossible to find a truth value for a claim such as “Race X is superior to race Y.” It is like claiming that Blue whales are superior to Bowhead whales. You would spend the rest of eternity defining and clarifying your terms, and then you would still be faced with the problems of providing and justifying your criteria for judgement.And even if somehow you were able to secure agreement on all of these things, then you would be left with a “fact” such as “Blue whales are superior to Bowhead whales.” Even if it were possible to know this to a metaphysical certainty, of what possible use would such knowledge be?If we could obtain such knowledge concerning races, and I deny that we can, we would still have to navigate the exact same ethical thickets that we do now.So let us navigate them rationally, honestly, and humanely and stop insisting that people form and state opinions when their opinions are irrelevant.