"Lawn Guy" wrote in message ...

It's my opinion that (most, many, or all) people would like to have an
extra $10 in their pocket right now. Is that an opinion, or fact? Can
an opinion never be shown to also be a fact?

In my opinion, depends on the cost of getting that $10.00. Its been my
experience, thus my opinion, that nothing in life is really ever free.
Since I was raised a genuine Christian, independent, try to not to live in
denial, and a thinking person as well, I know that $10.00 will cost someone.
I know if I was on the paying end of the $10.00, I would not like it. So,
treating others how I would like to be treated, I doubt that it would ever
be acceptable to me, in my opinion.

Facts, in the final analysis, are actually accepted opinions from those with
vast knowledge and research of a given "fact", in my opinion of course. So,
your question regarding an opinion ever be shown to also be a fact amounts
to an opinion being someone else's opinion, in my opinion of course.

A majority poll of a given populace of one's opinion on a specific matter
does not make that empirical evidence. Especially if that poll is assumed
by a closed and unconsciously discriminant observations of others (in my
opinion, a protected environment to protect one's viewpoint). Example:
"Everybody does it". Therefore, the basis is invalid based on the method at
arriving at the premise. All of the previous is my opinon of course.
--
Dave

If it looks like fish, smells like fish, its not
a cantaloupe.