Opinion
idea · 4 works · 4 mentions · 8 anchored passages
opinion · a certain effeminate and trifling opinion · doxa · الظن · ẓann
in the texts
Nicomachean Ethics
A cognitive state concerned with truth and falsehood about any matter, including the eternal, distinguished from choice which is about good and bad within our power.
Probably therefore nobody actually identifies choice with opinion in general.
Also we praise a choice rather for choosing the right thing, but an opinion for opining in the right way.
Also we distinguish opinion by its truth or falsehood, not by its being good or bad, but choice is distinguished rather as being good or bad.
Tusculan Disputations
The idea that the perceived severity of pain, and much of what is called evil in it, arises from belief and judgement rather than from nature itself.
For there is a certain effeminate and trifling opinion — no more in pain than the same in pleasure — by which, when we melt and flow away in softness, we cannot bear the sting of a bee without an outcry.
Do you see, then, that the evil is of opinion, not of nature?
Meditations
The Stoic concept that judgments, not external events, are the true source of disturbance, and that opinion lies within one's control.
That all is opinion, and that opinion is in your power.
that all is opinion.
and that all is opinion;
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
Opinion, the first of the roots of cognition in the quoted division and the intruder that muddies knowledge
men's cognitions, in summary statement and approximately, divide in their roots into opinion (*ẓann*), estimation, intuition (*ḥads*), intellect, certainty (*yaqīn*), doubt, the prevailing first presumption, inspiration (*ilhām*), foreboding (*ījās*), the passing thought (*khāṭir*), the thought that comes unbidden (*sāniḥ*), and the thought that gleams (*lāʼiḥ*).