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9/8/2012 5:47:37 PM
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"Her favorite color is blue". opinion, or fact?
If I where to say "Her favorite color is blue" would that be considered an opinion or a fact?
Back in middle school, my english teacher always said that was an opinion because "her" ,or the subjects, favorite color was always subject to change. I suppose your religion is an opinion too. So is your criminal record. They're all subject to change.
Does a sentence like this just say "-blam!- the rules, I'm an opinion"? Or was my teacher wrong?
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"There is a phone on my bed" is also subject to change but that doesn't stop it from being a fact. Who said that facts couldn't change? That's just strange to me.
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Fact.
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Make it a "was" and it's a more solid argument for fact, because it's true for the past tense.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] teh Chaz It's a fact describing an opinion.[/quote]
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No, that's bull. Logic would tell you that it would be fact until the person changed their mind. If someones favorite color is blue for today, that is fact. If their mind changes tomorrow, it was still a fact that they once liked blue.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] teh Chaz It's a fact describing an opinion.[/quote]This. "My favorite color is orange" is fact. "The best color is orange" is opinion. They both convey a similar message even though they're delivered differently.
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It's a fact describing an opinion.
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Well, partially. You'd have to give a time period for it to be fact. saying "Her favorite color is blue" is too vague and I can see why it could be considered an opinion. However, if someone put a time with it and said "her favorite color at the moment is blue" that would be fact as it doesn't consider the future or past, just the given moment in time. [Edited on 09.08.2012 10:31 AM PDT]
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[u]Her[/u] favorite colour is blue [u]right now[/u]. That's a fact. If her favorite colour right now is blue, that is.
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So if I say "The car is here" it is an opinion because its position can change?
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Your English teacher's logic is pisspoor (well, what do you expect from a Humanities graduate?). The statement refers specifically to the present tense - "her favorite color [b][u]is[/u][/b] blue" - thus making any future point at which her opinion changes irrelevant. The statement is factually correct, provided of course that her favourite colour is blue at the time of speaking. [Edited on 09.08.2012 10:25 AM PDT]
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Providing she doesn't change her mind halfway through saying the sentence it is a fact. My location is liable to change, does that make my current location a matter of opinion?
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"I think her favourite colour is blue" is an opinion. "Her favourite colour is blue" is a fact, if you can prove it true. Incorrect fact != opinion
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] EcksBawks_live It would be a fact to say "she likes blue". It would be an opinion to say "blue is best color".[/quote]
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A friend told me that her teacher said to her students (including him) "I'm going to teach you guys about evolution, but be aware that this is all fake because it goes against what the bible says" And I was like lolwtf OT: If she's telling the truth, it's a fact. [Edited on 09.08.2012 9:58 AM PDT]
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Damn... That's a good question. I'm going to say fact. Cause even if it's subject to change, at that point in time it's a fact that her favorite color is blue.
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It's a fact. I don't understand where your teacher got that rule where if something can change, it isn't a fact. That just isn't true. If I were to say "it is daytime in EST right now", that is a fact. It will eventually change and that statement will not be true, but right now, it is a fact.
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It's a fact
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It would be a fact to say "she likes blue". It would be an opinion to say "blue is best color".
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If she says that her favourite colour is blue and isn't lying then to say that her favourite colour is blue is a fact. Blue being her favourite colour is an opinion And I don't know what on earth your teacher was on about saying that things that can change are opinions. I've never heard that rule. In that case basically everything would be an opinion... [Edited on 09.08.2012 9:51 AM PDT]
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Depends who is the "who". It is not a universal sentence.
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It's liable to change so I'd say an opinion.
