# Utility of prejudice: Reducing freedom to cognition and vice versa

Canonical page: https://dominiklukes.net/writing/2007-10-10-utility-of-prejudice-reducing-freedom-to-cognition-and-vice-versa

The piece argues that categorisation enables both ordinary navigation and social prejudice while negotiation permits people to revise its consequences.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 October 2007

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 10 October 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: categorisation, prejudice, cognition, conceptual-framing.

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