Some believe in some things or matters as facts while others consider it mere opinions. How can those who consider them facts understand them as opinion/s and how can those who claim things or matters as opinions understand something as fact/s?
Is reconciliation possible and how?
I know some may consider it obsolete and clear but many indeed fail to understand the root differences and similarities that ultimately leads to tension and conflict.
Appreciate your insights in advance.
A lot of people often use "opinion" in a way which isn't necessarily reasonable. An opinion can be true for one person, but totally false for another. It's truth is dependent on the evaluator. Meanwhile, subjective positions have an actual truth which is independent of any given evaluator.
So for instance, if someone makes a statement about whether climate change is happening, that's not an opinion. It might be an uninformed position, or a position taken based on personal knowledge, but it is not opinion. It is a statement of fact, independent of the evaluator, whether it is a true fact or a false one.
That is exactly what is happening with some politicians in the USA. Even though global warming (later renamed by naysayers as climate change), has been ridiculed by some politicians including those at high levels as a hoax, we know that there are tons of scientific data that show that global warming is real. Those who oppose it make it sound like it is someone's opinion.
I think that if the statement contains numbers and/or can be proved in any way, this means it is a fact.
Some see that an irrevocable distance remains between what man thinks and what he says, in reference to the inability to fully express the dimensions of thought. The fact is that there is no such distance because there is no idea apart from expression. The idea and expression of literature, or drawing, or music are born at the same moment. No one of the parties independent of the other.
But is the real idea really expressed? Perhaps and often the speaker does notmanage to communicate the real idea but a weaker version of it. Often is such expression misunderstood and that is another idea.
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