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I'm trying to advocate for more intellectual honesty and clarity. It can certainly be a lot of fun to just take a thought and run with it, and while the exercis

I'm trying to advocate for more intellectual honesty and clarity. It can certainly be a lot of fun to just take a thought and run with it, and while the exercise can lead to useful insights, people are also prone to seeing patterns where none exist and stating their own ideas as if they were fact. I think it's important to pay attention to how you communicate your ideas, because it's very easy to make completely baseless conjecture sound convincing to yourself, let alone other people, if you're not careful.

xaedes 7y ago
That may be true in general, but it surely does not apply to a post starting with "in my opinion" and you even proceed to nag on that phrase alone. Ironic, how does that fit with "advocating intellectual honesty and clarity"?
- chousuke 7y ago
  "In my opinion" is not a magic phrase that you can use to say whatever you want. Opinions are subjective evaluations of things for which there is no justifiable objective answer, such as personal preferences and judgements. Saying that the sky is green is not a valid opinion, because the sky is not green, and it can be shown not to be so. Some things are not a matter of opinion.