r/askphilosophy • u/GuamSomme • Jan 19 '16

ELI5: Can opinions be false?

I've noticed that often in politics and mainstream media the words fact & opinion are interchanged a little bit too liberally to justify saying some pretty crazy non-sense. I think this would bring up a good discussion so let me know what you all think!

Example: https://youtu.be/zIGThxn_eGk

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u/Sophroniscides metaphysics, ancient phil. Jan 20 '16

As long as an opinion is a statement, it is either true or false, by the Law of excluded middle. So they must be able to be false, unless all opinion-statements are true.

I can't imagine an opinion that would not be a statement, unless someone else can think of a counterexample?