Mind organizes our knowledge as concept and content. Concept might be "movies" and content is everything we know about movies. A more specific concept might be "Matrix" and the content is all we know about this particular movie. Another concept might be "father" and the content is everything we know about father. There are millions of concepts.
The organisation of knowledge as concept - content is all right. Clear concept and clear content is very good.
But concepts can be shaded or unclear. Then there might be problems.
Prejudice is a big group of shaded concepts. There is prejudice against all citizens, be they young or old, women or men, rich or poor, white or black, Muslims or Jews.
So we know the phenomenon. We all have experienced the problem of trying to fight a shaded concept about ourself by referring to content. It is almost impossible.
In a mind analysis, however, the problem is not a big one. In this analysis we do not consider every concept as a fixed truth, but as a matter open to analysis and debate.
In such an analysis we will find that positive concepts are more true and usable than negative concepts. So "nice person" is much more true than "bad".
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