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Well then, since he who deliberates ill goes wrong, and he who

deliberates well does so rightly, it is clear that Good Counsel

is rightness of some kind, but not of Knowledge nor of Opinion:

for Knowledge cannot be called right because it cannot be wrong,

and Rightness of Opinion is Truth: and again, all which is the

object of opinion is definitely marked out.[36]

Still, however, Good Counsel is not independent of Reason, Does

it remain then that it is a rightness of Intellectual Operation

simply, because this does not amount to an assertion; and the

objection to Opinion was that it is not a process of enquiry but

already a definite assertion; whereas whosoever deliberates,

whether well or ill, is engaged in enquiry and calculation.