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Do not confuse opinions with facts!

 Mere opinions must be rejected and treated with distrust

Epictetus

Discourses - 2.11.13


Mere opinions should not be confused with facts

How to distinguish both - you ask

Through Inquiry

All opinions are mere hypothesis

Unless tested to prove


To give the simplest analogy

Say there is a rice bag 

Person A lifts and says 10 Kg

Person B does same and opines 12 kg

Both are opinions to be rejected 

So what do you do?

Use the standard of judgment - the weighing scale

To settle the matters!


Similarly in life , you see someone acting ir thinking

Differently than you would

Leading to disagreement

So this forces us to look at our own acts and thought

That we had earlier taken for granted


Its time to realize then that you own opinions

Were dependant on choices and circumstances

That is you should not take it as granted

Until you look at your own thinking

And seek more accurate basis for it

Throught the acquisition of the - analogical weighing balance and ruler

The yardstick for your thoughts! 


The result can be that 

Truth is either own opinion or the contrary

Or a third one that combines both the perspectives 

That elevate my understanding


This may be the best way : 

To determine its my way or your way

Or a better way!


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