Prejudices

[Joe Varo]

On Tue, 26 Nov 1996, davemarc wrote:

> [snip]
> Perhaps it's the word "prejudice" that's making this concept confusing.
> Maybe "prejudice" comes with too much of the wrong prejudice.  Any
> suggestions?

You know, as I was reading the snipped part of your post, I was thinking
much the same thing, i.e. that there is a perjorative prejudice about the
word "prejudice".  I do understand what you're saying, the whole thing
about how language shapes our thinking, how language is the house of Being
and all.  I just think that sometimes it gets taken a bit to far, sort of
beyond it's intended meaning.  Derrida is very easy to misuse.

Perhaps instead of using "prejudice" we should use the perhaps more
neutral "pre-judgement"?

Joe