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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: NUM-ORC |
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OPINION (Lat. opinio, from opinari, to think) , a term
ordinary speech for an idea or an explanation of facts which is regarded as being based on evidence which is good but not conclusive. In logic it is used as a translation
drawn
opinion , which deals with mere appearance , error, not-being. So Plato places Sofia between alvtrl61s and &Avoca, as dealing with phenomena contrasted with non-being and being respectively. Thus Plato confines opinion to that which is subject to change . Aristotle
idea , assigns to opinion (especially in the Ethics) the sphere of things contingent, i.e. the future: hence opinion deals with that which is probable. More generally he usesxx 5popular opinionthat which is generally held to be true (6oKeiv) as the starting-point of an inquiry. In modern philosophy the term
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