Confusionism

Synonyms for "confusionism"

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Catalan

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  • confusionisme noun (a strategy of maintaining confusion)

French

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  • confusionnisme noun (a strategy of maintaining confusion)

Russian

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  • запутаи́зм noun (a strategy of maintaining confusion)

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Yet it is this very proliferation that has induced Stanley Fish to proclaim the imminent demise of theory, a demise whose most telling symptom is precisely the "noise" generated by theory. Commenting on and extending Fish's line of argument, Vincent Descombes argues that we have entered a phase of theoretical confusionism that makes it difficult to determine what theory is.

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Let us not forget, moreover, that objectivism still boasts staunch defenders in contemporary thought, who typically level facile charges of confusionism or obtuseness against so called 'postmodern scepticism' […]

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