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/ˈpəʊstdʒʊdɪs/ · noun
An opinion or bias acquired after the fact, or after a given event..
There is a mixture of good sense and of what, for want of a better name, people call prejudice: but to this mixture we owe our stability. The proper word is postjudice, a clinging to past experience, often longer than is held judicious by after times.
Prejudice, in fact, is not so much the great intellectual sin as a thing which we may call, to coin a word, “postjudice,” not the bias before the fair trial, but the bias that remains afterwards.
There is another prejudice, or post-judice rather, that may have conditioned my choice of heroes and heroines.
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Postjudice means An opinion or bias acquired after the fact, or after a given event..
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There is a mixture of good sense and of what, for want of a better name, people call prejudice: but to this mixture we owe our stability. The proper word is postjudice, a clinging to past experience, often longer than is held judicious by after times.
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