“TFY”: Chapter 6 – Opinions – Summary
This chapter is all about opinions and the many types of them. Different types of opinions include judgments, advice, generalizations, personal preference and public sentiment. Making a judgment opinion would be saying that something is good or bad or right or wrong. When giving advice, you are telling someone something they should or should not do. When making a generalization, you are suggested something that can be taken for truth. Personal preferences are things you personally like or dislike. And public sentiments are normally taken by polling the public and finding their opinions. On top of having different types of opinions, there is also the determination if opinions are responsible or not. You find this out by recognizing whether the opinion you are hearing is from an expert’s judgment or an argument that is well supported; or whether the opinion is from a final legal judgment or an unsubstantiated belief. When hearing opinions, you should be careful not to confuse them with facts. And if a person is expressing an argument, then you need to make sure they have facts, evidence, other claims and reasoning to support their arguments. I never realized how many different types of opinions there really was. I thought an opinion was an opinion. So I enjoyed reading this chapter and learning from it.
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