Heh :-) although to turn a serious point on a tongue-in-cheek comment, I also worry that people sometimes seem to have opinions as a thing to show off at dinner parties - that they have something to say about X rather than that they actually think something about X even when they're not at a dinner party. I've called this "opinions as stamp collections" in the past; Dennett calls it "believing in belief".
To a certain extent I think that's something we all do, but I try to make the distinction clear in conversation; if that's what I'm doing, I'll tend to preface my remarks with something like "I'm often tempted to think that..." or some such disclaimer.
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Date: 2008-05-19 05:46 pm (UTC)To a certain extent I think that's something we all do, but I try to make the distinction clear in conversation; if that's what I'm doing, I'll tend to preface my remarks with something like "I'm often tempted to think that..." or some such disclaimer.