Abstract

In the history of philosophy, presuppositions entered onto the scene when the category of pre-understanding was introduced by Edmund Burke, the late 18th century English thinker. Phenomenologists, particularly Alfred Sch¨utz, a co-founder of symbolic interactionism, drew upon these concepts. Still, the philosophical categories of pre-understanding and prejudice [pre-judgment] have a number of counterparts in every natural language, and these are worthy of researching classification and detailed description.