Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun False or pretended philosophy.
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- noun Any
philosophical system that does not meetmainstream academic standards .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Instead, he constantly chases his tail in a whirlwind of sophistry and pseudophilosophy.
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Moreover its philosophy is after all only a pseudophilosophy; its tempting equations of disease and error and sin and unreality are ultimately a mere playing with conceptions.
Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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Even where sound religion without superstition and without pseudophilosophy stands behind the therapeutic work, the community will not give up the question whether the church does not necessarily neglect by it the interests which are superior.
Psychotherapy Hugo M��nsterberg 1889
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It's easy to teach gobbledygook, art babble, homogeneous dogma, pseudophilosophy -- it takes the place of being taught real skills in painting, sculpture, or in that branch of philosophy known as aesthetics.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Because it is one of the biggest piles of embarrasing pseudophilosophy that I've ever seen.
Listal promoted 2010
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