A Squire’s Trial

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- I don't see the difference. After all, if two people have conflicting
"knowledge" about something, isn't it just like a difference
in opinion?
- Truth is truth regardless of what anyone says, so "opinions"
are a result of ignorance, while knowledge comes from nature,
from experience. No one has opinionated arguments about
gravity.
- I'm not sure. Can't different people have different opinions
about the same experience?
- When was the last time you heard someone tell you that
you should listen to these "other guys" who say that gravity is
caused by your shadow gripping you and dragging you back
down to earth? After all, "all opinions are equally valid", aren't
they?
His witty example made me laugh, but at the same time, I
saw where he was coming from. You don’t really see arguments
of opinion in hard sciences and established facts. I don’t
imagine anyone would argue that 2 plus 2 equals 4 with just an
opinion, especially since we can literally prove it using our fingers.
All these arguments of ideals and opinions that I’ve listened
to in college or seen on TV never concerned factual information
or say, pit a dentist against someone who pulls out
their teeth with a bit of string and a door on matters of dental
hygiene. He must have taken my laughter and short moment
of musings as confirmation that I agreed with his point, and he
carried on.
- Here’s another universal element of falsehoods – they are
all made up by people, which is, again, why there are so many
of them. A lie can be either a conscious creation to deceive, or
a result of delusion or misinterpretation.