twooffour said:
Like, because when someone's accusing me of confusing facts with opinions, and posts shitty flawed google graphics to support that, they're kinda misusing those terms... in the everyday language that is this board?
It's not a "google" graphic. Google didn't spawn the graphic. That very same graphic is in a 2nd grade reading text book. Do you suppose the publishers of this textbook found the graphic from google and put it in their book? Or do you suppose someone might have taken that graphic from a textbook and posted it online where it was found by a google search?
The definition of opinion which was covered by that graphic was "a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge" (from The Oxford English Dictionary, not some bullshit, iffy, dictionary website). It was a simple graphic meant to explain the basic differences between "fact" and "opinion" to grade school children. Just so there is no more confusion, the definition of fact being used in that graphic is "a thing that is indisputably the case" (also from The Oxford English Dictionary).
Examples:
(since the second grade method of teaching "fact" and "opinion" was a bit of a miss on you, let's try the method that seems to work with kindergarten or first grade)
*Pointing to a picture of a black puppy* I say, "The puppy is black"
Since the puppy is black, this is a fact. It is indisputable.
Now I say, "The puppy is cute"
While you or I may find the puppy to be very adorable, someone else may find it quite hideous. There is no real standard to define "cute", it can't be proven either way. Therefore this is an opinion.