 In Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics, the hermeneutical experience of truth, as conditioned by tradition, is thus a matter of prejudice. Gadamer clarifies the meaning of ‘prejudice’ in reference to the early Heidegger. Gadamer agrees with Heidegger that human existence is characterized by facticity, so that understanding, or, our projection of possibilities, is oriented by ‘pre-structures’ that are a matter of thrownness. Yet, such ‘pre-structures’ are best described as ‘prejudices’ because they concern more than the individual situations that comprise our existence. These ‘pre-structures’ are shaped by the larger context of historically inherited meanings that remain operative, or, in effect, in such situations of our individual existence in the first place (Gadamer, Truth and Method, Part II.II.1.A).