prepossession

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We must approach the whole subject of split or duplicated personalities with no prepossession against the possibility of any given arrangement or division of the total mass of consciousness which exists within us.

From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)

We are apt, under the influence of prepossession or prejudice, to remember certain coincidences better than others, and so to imagine extra-casual coincidence where none exists.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

Only the force of the prepossession of mathematical atomism in analytic logic can account for its failure to do so.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Bode, Boyd H.

The Anthologies of Diabolical Literature may be considered, I trust, without any risk of offence to any theological or philosophical prepossession.

From Devil Stories An Anthology by Various

Should you, therefore, behold another with the eye of prepossession, at least, regard Eliza as a sister, and give her a portion accordingly.

From The Mysterious Wanderer, Vol. III A Novel in Three Volumes by Reeve, Sophia