Pseudodiscipline

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An area of study that has a limited resemblance to an academic discipline.

    "If this is the kind of reasoning that "dialectical logic" encourages, the chief function of that pseudodiscipline would seem to be to facilitate conceptual confusion."

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"If this is the kind of reasoning that "dialectical logic" encourages, the chief function of that pseudodiscipline would seem to be to facilitate conceptual confusion."

Etymology

From pseudo- + discipline.

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