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nounidea formed before event occurs or facts are received

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And, indeed, the older an idea is, and the more stubbornly recurrent it is, the more we should be wary that it is a preconception rather than anything based on evidence.

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Empathetic people challenge their own preconceptions and prejudices by searching for what they share with people rather than what divides them.

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The second cost, equally damaging, is that wind up ignoring violence that doesn’t fit our preconceptions.

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You don’t have to have a long track record in healthcare or science reporting, but you do have to be determined, prepared to challenge preconceptions, and be comfortable asking for help and taking guidance.

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Our preconceptions can also cause us to find supernatural evidence in garbled noise or blurred images.

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The prevailing conception, however, has been adopted without examination; it is a preconception.

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The experiences gained by the Americans in the Civil War helped to confirm this preconception.

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Now, in that preconception lies the capital blunder incident to the question.

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Not for the truth in them, but for the grace, or because they touched the spring of some preconception or some passion.

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He works in a noble freedom from prejudice and preconception, uncorrupted by custom as he is untrammelled by tradition.

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