# CC: This isn't really a pitting, but since it's personal... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 3, 2010, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cc-this-isnt-really-a-pitting-but-since-its-personal/562768 "2010-12-03T05:02:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 56
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cc-this-isnt-really-a-pitting-but-since-its-personal/562768/56 "2010-12-03T22:09:58Z")
> [@Stoid](#): > > This is fascinating and entirely new to me. I hope you will participate in the upcoming thread and explain this in greater detail, because I’m not really sure I follow, and I very much want to understand. (Because my immediate reaction is to think…hold it. how does this not apply to everything? More on that later, it might be just a semantic thing that is quickly cleared up, but I don’t want to get too deep here.) I have heard it used differently so often on this board that I am not sure I even remember this correctly anymore. But I always thought I had learned that facts are facts and opinions are opinions. You can have an opinion about a fact, of course. If I say, “There is no afterlife”, that is a false fact. It is incorrect. But it isn’t an opinion. If I say, “Thinking there is an afterlife is dumb” then that is an opinion. I am repeating myself, though, so maybe I should try finding someone else’s explanation. I googled this and got the following quote from the [Wise Geek](http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-difference-between-fact-and-opinion.htm)website. “ **The difference between fact and opinion is that a fact is something that is empirically true and can be supported by evidence while an opinion is a belief that may or may not be backed up with some type of evidence. An opinion is normally a subjective statement that can be the result of an emotion or an individual interpretation of a fact. For example, biological differences between males and females are a fact while a preference for one gender over the other is opinion.** ” --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cc-this-isnt-really-a-pitting-but-since-its-personal/562768)._