General Discussions

[kruddler]

I like to think of myself as a philosopher, and generally speaking, your gut instinct is usually formed based on some sort of evidence formed by observation of real world practises.

Usually, your gut, will lead you to an observable likelihood.  This may not always be true, but thats where you form a hypothesis then test it.  If it stands up to rudimentary tests, then it effectively has already a basis in fact, not just a wild assertion.

You could expand that to any mode of thinking really and then it becomes a testable hypothesis.  Your gut instincts are in my experience formed from prior experience in similar situations.

I agree gut comes from past experiences, largely, but that not exactly the question i was posing.

The negative connotations that come with the words prejudice and bias infer being incorrect.

Prejeduce: preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience.
Your gut can count as past experience to a certain degree, but if your gut is correct, are you still prejudice?

It's a similar line of thinking to "If a stereotype is true, is it really a stereotype?"

In both circumstances you could perhaps put it down to a figurative vs literal use of the same words and/or phrases?