scshunt wrote:

> On 10-12-19 11:17 PM, Ed Murphy wrote:
>> Arguments:  "an opinion" can be reasonably interpreted as "exactly one
>> opinion", leading to a straightforward judgement of TRUE.
> 
> It can't really. This interpretation is generally unsupported:
[snip]
> "an" is an existential qualifier. It makes no sense to interpret it as 
> anything else.

In general, no; but in this particular context, it does make sense,
due to (1) obvious intent and (2) implicitly having a "the" applied
to it (from "the Justiciar's Opinion").

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