The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #18967   Message #191472
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
07-Mar-00 - 07:51 PM
Thread Name: Age= importance of opinion.
Subject: RE: Age= importance of opinion.
An opinion is the same as a point of view. If you don't have a point of view you can't be looking at the thing in question. Objects looked at from different points of view look different. It doesn't mean there isn't a single object there all along.

Find out more about other people's points of view, and accept them for what they are, and you start to get a clearer idea of what the object is in itself.

The blind men studying the elephant ("it's a snake", "its a pillar" etc) weren't wrong in reporting what they found.They were wrong in thinking that the different reports contradicted each other.