Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An opinion or conception formed in advance of adequate knowledge or experience, especially a prejudice or bias.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A conception or opinion formed in advance of experience or actual knowledge; also, the influence of previous belief or states of mind in modifying the conceptions formed under the partial influence of experience.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of preconceiving; conception or opinion previously formed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
opinion formed before obtainingadequate evidence , especially as the result ofbias orprejudice . - noun A prejudice that
prevents rational consideration of an issue.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an opinion formed beforehand without adequate evidence
- noun a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
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Examples
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In other words their argument rests on a certain preconception of God.
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It's about a certain preconception of what is possible, looking at objects from a different angle, and a certain conception about the unknown.
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It's about a certain preconception of what is possible, looking at objects from a different angle, and a certain conception about the unknown.
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The preconception is that there is design and that design can be discovered.
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The preconception is that there is design and that design can be discovered.
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Once again facts show that a Republican preconception is not bounded in either science, methodology or facts.
Think Progress » Protest Turnout: A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Lies 2005
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One "preconception" I have, based on the the Book of Revelation itself, is that it in the first instance referred to the Roman Empire and the time in which it was written and their immediate future.
The Two Witnesses James F. McGrath 2008
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(Your comment) One "preconception" I have, based on the Book of Revelation itself, is that it in the first instance referred to the Roman Empire and the time in which it was written (and their immediate future).
The Two Witnesses James F. McGrath 2008
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He is simply repeating his "preconception" while refusing to learn.
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As many pictures as have been given of my father, how like him soever in different airs and attitudes, — not one, or all of them, can ever help the reader to any kind of preconception of how my father would think, speak, or act, upon any untried occasion or occurrence of life. —
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