If you define "opinion" as something which is not obviously true then every opinon had once to be at least a bit eccentric by definition.
every opinon had once to be at least a bit eccentric by definition.
I'm having trouble parsing that, could you re-phrase?
Also it's not so much about what I'm defining "opinion" to be, but rather about what the quote means when it says "opinion". If we're going to say that the quote is wrong, we should at least aim to attack what the quote is intended to mean, rather than what we can interpret it to mean.
Betrand Russell's Ten Commandments for teachers.
I find this to be of use not just for teachers but for rationalists in general. #8, especially, is an especially eloquent formulation of Aumann's Agreement Theorem.