Your wise person sounds more like a rationalist/secularist/pluralist/relativist than a person of CATHOLIC FAITH.
"All the faithful share in understanding and handing on revealed truth. They have received the anointing of the Holy Spirit, who instructs them and guides them into all truth. "The whole body of the faithful. . . cannot err in matters of belief. This characteristic is shown in the supernatural appreciation of faith (sensus fidei) on the part of the whole people, when, from the bishops to the last of the faithful, they manifest a universal consent in matters of faith and morals." "By this appreciation of the faith, aroused and sustained by the Spirit of truth, the People of God, guided by the sacred teaching authority (Magisterium),. . . receives. . . the faith, once for all delivered to the saints. . . The People unfailingly adheres to this faith, penetrates it more deeply with right judgment, and applies it more fully in daily life." (CCC 91-93)
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Opinions are always a matter of opinion when they are the result of ones opinion masquerading as truth.
Whether an opinion can be held as a truth is a matter governed by ones opinion. Opinion reflects the understandings of the one offering an opinion; never the thought that an opinion is merely an interpretation of ones perceptions influenced by ones willingness to believe that opinion, and fact are compatible in the mind of those seeking to affirm their beliefs through wishful thinking.
It is a wise person who understands that the fewer the facts the stronger, and more determined is the opinion that presumes to know.
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