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Full Idea
Opinion is praised for being in accordance with truth.
Gist of Idea
Opinion is praised for being in accordance with truth
Source
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics [c.334 BCE], 1112a07)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Ethics (Nicomachean)', ed/tr. ThomsonJ A K/TredennickH [Penguin 1976], p.117
A Reaction
This presumably makes Aristotle a realist, and it seems to me that the concepts of 'opinion' or 'belief' are incomprehensible without the concept of truth.