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pseudo-philosophy

pseudo-philosophy is the alternative form of pseudophilosophy.

Meaning of pseudophilosophy

Noun

pseudophilosophy (countable and uncountable, plural pseudophilosophies)

  1. (derogatory) Fake or very bad philosophy.
    • If I were to say that the so-called philosophy of this fellow Hegel is a colossal piece of mystification which will yet provide posterity with an inexhaustible theme for laughter at our times, that it is a pseudophilosophy paralyzing all mental powers, stifling all real thinking, and, by the most...1965, E.F.J.Payne translating Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Basis of Morality
    Synonyms:
    philosophastry

Questions about pseudo-philosophy

What is pseudo-philosophy the alternative form of?
Pseudo-philosophy is the alternative form of pseudophilosophy.

Words near pseudo-philosophy in the dictionary

  1. pseudo-penannular
  2. pseudo-penes
  3. pseudo-penis
  4. pseudo-penises
  5. pseudo-period
  6. pseudo-philosophy
  7. pseudo-poetic
  8. pseudo-polynomial time
  9. pseudo-polynomial times
  10. pseudo-problem
  11. pseudo-problems

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