Presupposti e pregiudizi: la metafora spaziale in fenomenologia

Assumption and prejudice are close, yet different, terms. An unbiased view of the object is impossible. Hence, the necessity of making assumptions arises. According to Jaspers, we can point out different types of prejudices: philosophical or deductive, theoretical, somatic, and quantitative. The catalogue is longer than this: another type of extremely pervasive and insidious prejudice is the imaginative. In philosophical and scientific thought this late prejudice takes the form of a space metaphor and its correlative concepts, such as: part of a whole, stratum, aspect, perspective and determination.