It can be both. The experience certainly has happened, that part is factual. Your emotional response to it during and afterwards is your opinion.
I think the human brain constantly searches for easy answers, and sometimes being quick and low-effort is easy, but often incorrect, and that’s where we can get into some trouble. Usually the first “reason” after you scratch off the surface level isn’t the REAL reason, it’s just the most convenient, so many will stop right there. “Person A engaged in Action B, and it was because of Reason C”, I don’t think it’s usually that simple. “Reason C” probably has a whole trail to it as to how one arrived there, because of Influence D, Outside Factor E, Special Circumstance F, and Social Problem G…. or something like that. The point is that Reason C isn’t to blame, Reason C is the symptom, not the cause. But does everyone else want to do the required legwork to go through “D, E, F, & G?” Usually not. Most of the time I feel like we just hustle to “Person A did Action B for Reason C, and Reason C is valid/invalid in my estimation, with no further questions or understanding given, which means Action B is decidedly good/bad without context or nuance, and that renders Person A wholly good/bad, also without context or nuance.” And I just simply think that’s a very dangerous and lazy thought pattern to get into as a society and as individuals.
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Interesting question.
Looking at my best (male) friend who wanted to commit suicide a few years ago because he was under the impression that everyone and everything on this world wants something bad to happen for him. Over the years he built a complex story about all of it but after all, i am his best friend and i don't believe any of what he says.
Now to the actual question: whenever my friend tells me something he lately experienced i sense it is some bullshit that only his brain assembled out of the complex network he built up in his brain for some reason. Again, in reality all of it is bullshit.
My final conclusion is that experiences are just something that each and every subjects brain makes up. It is a "fact" for this very subject only which makes it an opinion.
If you had an experience then it's a fact that you had that experience, but if it was something really unusual then don't expect others to believe you, and don't get upset when they express their doubts.
Depends on the experience. If I fall down then I experienced gravity, which is real and factual. If 1 out of 10 guys cheats on me and I say all men cheat, that's an opinion
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They are facts of limited relevance. They really happened, and are one point of data, but cannot be assumed to apply to all people or situations. It must also be remembered that you are also filtering your experience through your own action and biases that won't necessarily apply to other people - sometimes it will, of course, but sometimes it won't.
This is why the scientific method requires scientists to publish what they've done so that others can repeat the results (or not), and an idea or experiment only considered to be valid AFTER many others have repeated the tests and gotten the same results. It's why social scientists interview thousands or tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people before they draw conclusions that can be reasonably expected to apply to most people - and even then, there are always going to be a few exceptions.
There are such things as facts. I stubbed my toe. The window got broken. I swam in the ocean. It's raining. I got mugged or raped. A loved one died. Facts are facts.
A the same time, some things that we believe are facts are not. Personal experiences are one thing, but things that we believe to be true based on what we learn in school, from media and from friends may be very far from factual. We can be made to believe falsehoods.
I'd say that experiences are facts but they are subject to our individual perception and interpretation. When one says they "feel" a certain way, that's a fact. Whether or not their feeling is based on reality is another matter.Neither, they are experiences. You could have bad experiences or good, but there are many things in it that could be your behaviours, your opinions and factoids.
For example, your Hispanic neighbour gives you "bad vibes" and you've never had a good experience with him. There are no facts or valid opinions as you are to blame for the situation more than they are. But if something was to turn out to validate your experience, then you would be in the right.I have this saying you have to experience it before you understand it we can be book smart but do we really understand it for me I like to experience it so I understand it one hundred percent and even then I want to experience it again to become better at it so I think it's both
That’s an interesting question because of their experience it’s a fact for them not just an opinion but everyone’s experience is different with the same things
Opinions. As the experience is biased up to you only.
A fact can be a common point in a number of experiences.My wife and I went on a tourist excursion last week.
We both shared the same experience.
I hated it, she loved it.
The actual experience is fact, our individual feelings about it are opinion.Depends on what you mean by "experiences." Many use it in the emotional sense. But I would disagree that emotions are fact. We need to have these emotional illusions so that we can reach whatever goals nature has planned for us.
opinions, mostly.
As they are subjective and individually.If someone punches you in the face or hurt you someway and then ask yourself if that was a opinion or not. I'd say it was quite a fact.
I would think an Experience is a Fact, because it actually happened.
However, I can have an Opinion about something because of an Experience I had in the past.Interpretation of experience = opinion , or could be an opinion because two in the same factual circumstance have differing views eg : a robbery
Each experience has a personal tinge..Facts to you, opinions (technically) to everyone else. Opinions in that we don’t know if you’re lying, remembering wrong, etc. If we can’t investigate it’s opinion. Or commentary.
Experiences are experiences. How you relate the events of those experiences are either empirical or anecdotal evidence. Empirical evidence can be reproduced while anecdotal is observed
You dont think experiences as opinions are real enough for you only and with convincing the opinions may be taken as a guide.
Can be both. Facts if you remember every little detail. Opinions if you only remember part of it and make up the rest.
They are facts. However, experiences are subjective.
I think it can go either way depending on how strongly someone feels about the experience
Facts. Because they did happen. But how those make you feel or what you make of it, is the opinion part
Experiences are the facts that happened. They may affect your opinions.
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