To me an "opinion" occurs when you take a stance on something but you are aware it is only your personal truth and/or you know there is no clear objective answer. For example, religion is an opinion in my eyes, because it's a personal decision. I think yes they can be excuses for premature decisions but a lot of times we HAVE to make decisions without all the information. So we do what we can.
The nice thing about opinion is it's malleable. Fact is less so.
if my analysis is partial, then ill make it very clear by the way i arrange words.
I express my uncertainti with certainty on my uncertainty instead of pretending its complete. This allows clarity for unfinished data to be built upon.
And most religions are actually factual, just very complicatedly so and high in concentration of parabilicity.
Pretty much what I was about to say. An opinion is a value/taste based judgement on something for which there is no objective, factual answer. "The average rent per square meter in your town is X dollars high" is a fact. "The rents are too damn high" is an opinion.
There are a lot of mentally lazy people who confuse the two at times and will say "It is a fact that X is too y" when they should either call it an opinion or qualify the statement as "X is too y for z to happen".
I don't think though that this has anything to do with Ni users and "non-INJ types".
You might have made a premature decision in starting a thread calling for "RAW input" on a very shaky assumption while stating that you believe you already answered your own question...you un-INJ of you!
With this post, im returning to my old conclusion before this thread: everyone has a different criteria for what an opinion is, as it differs greatly what each person consider the criteria for truth.
Id say, of th up above quote post before this, that every name of city is an opinion. Cities are just dead material, like everything else, thus personifying them is opinionating. Considering people experience the same city in different ways, even if majority appeals to labeling.
Where i use opinions: if the data has no impact for other people nor doesnt affect them directly, plus is utterly useless in terms of anything else than just mere enjoyment, then, its an opinion. Opinions are very abstract to my world.
And rents being too high is a fact if they could sufficicate with lower.
What i wrote in brackets was something random which popped to my mind to exercise my 7w8 side.