preunderstanding
- noun
- /ˌpriːˌʌndərˈstændɪŋ/
- Specialized
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precomprensión
- One way of understanding these functions is to see them in relation to the presuppositions or preunderstanding that devout readers bring to the biblical text, which may be broken down into five aspects.
Examples
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Because new understanding adds to the preunderstanding, it furthers being, and thus all attempts at self-understanding only carry the self beyond the reach of full self-consciousness: the self that we are is always becoming.
Academic text (2001) -
In his approach to a text, then, a reader must submit to this fact of his historical nature and provisionally trust in his own preunderstanding; there is no other option.
Academic text (2001) -
A writer's writing, like a reader's reading, inevitably owes more to his preunderstanding than to his self-consciousness.
Academic text (2001) -
In this context, the process of understanding the other as other goes hand in hand with a clarification of our own preunderstandings or prejudgments.
Academic text (1992) -
This preunderstanding of maleness and femaleness has always understood certain ways of human existence—for example, human being as male or masculine.
Academic text (1997) -
Erin has problematized the notion of "transcending schemata," Lydie has questioned how we can possibly comprehend that which lies beyond our preunderstanding of being, and Michael has worried about the problems of uniformity in difference.
Academic text (1997) -
Like all interpretation, this involves some preunderstanding that the theologian brings to the classic, some recognition of the power exerted by this classic, a willingness to engage in a dialogue with the classic, allowing the subject matter to take over, and, finally, widening the dialogue to include other interpretations in the conversation, hermeneutics both of retrieval and of suspicion.
Academic text (1993) -
Before starting the new project, I needed to evaluate my preunderstanding of the topic.
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Her preunderstanding of the history allowed her to grasp the book's themes more quickly.
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Teachers should be aware of their students' preunderstanding when introducing new concepts.
Synonyms
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3.5
A belief people accept as true without proof
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5.8
An idea accepted as true without proof used as a basis for thinking or action
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6.8
An opinion you form before you have enough facts that makes you judge unfairly
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5.6
An opinion you form before you have enough facts
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7.1
A tendency to think or behave in a certain way because of past experiences
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7.7
A belief people accept as true before they discuss something
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4.3
An opinion you make before you know the facts
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7.1
An opinion made before you know all the facts
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5.3
An opinion you form before you know enough facts
An opinion you form before you know enough
An idea you have before you know or see something
How Informed
Surface Forms
Morphology
preunderstanding = understanding (transparent) = pre + understand + ing
The prefix 'pre-' straightforwardly adds the meaning 'before' to 'understanding'.
Etymology
Preunderstanding joins pre- meaning 'before' with understanding meaning 'what you already know or think', like in preview or prepare. So preunderstanding is the knowledge and beliefs you have 'before' learning something, and these can change how you see new information.