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confusionism

confusionism noun: any doctrine or philosophy that serves to confuse people.

Noun

confusionism (uncountable)

  1. Any doctrine or philosophy that serves to confuse people.
    • 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...1989, Thomas M. Kavanagh, The Limits of Theory, page 168
    • 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' […]2012, A. Kioupkiolis, Freedom After the Critique of Foundations

Origin of confusionism

From confusion + -ism.

Questions about confusionism

What does confusionism mean?
Confusionism means any doctrine or philosophy that serves to confuse people.
What part of speech is confusionism?
Confusionism is a noun.

Words near confusionism in the dictionary

  1. confusingly
  2. confusingness
  3. confusion
  4. confusional
  5. confusionary
  6. confusionism
  7. confusionist
  8. confusionists
  9. confusions
  10. confusive
  11. confusopolies

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