pseudodebate
pseudodebate noun: something presented as a debate in which there is no real disagreement.
Noun
pseudodebate (plural pseudodebates)
- Something presented as a debate in which there is no real disagreement.
- In Constitutional Fate, Bobbitt argues that the controversy over the legitimacy of judicial review is a pseudodebate, driven largely by a false picture of the nature of argument in constitutional law.1996, Dennis Michael Patterson, Wayne A. Patterson, Law and Truth, page 129
- Paul Ehrlich, again, is not innocent here, for the best example, and the most important, is the pseudodebate between Malthusian pessimists and anti-Malthusian optimists.1998, Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor, page 80
Forms of pseudodebate
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Origin of pseudodebate
From pseudo- + debate.
Questions about pseudodebate
- What does pseudodebate mean?
- Pseudodebate means something presented as a debate in which there is no real disagreement.
- What part of speech is pseudodebate?
- Pseudodebate is a noun.
- What is the plural of pseudodebate?
- The plural of pseudodebate is pseudodebates.
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