Pseudodiscipline
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pseudodiscipline is a noun meaning An area of study that has a limited resemblance to an academic discipline.
Meaning
An area of study that has a limited resemblance to an academic discipline.
Example Sentences
If this is the kind of reasoning that "dialectical logic" encourages, the chief function of that pseudodiscipline would seem to be to facilitate conceptual confusion.
In October 1956 the Academy of Sciences held a session that legitimated cybernetics, which had been denounced by Stalinist science and propaganda as a pseudodiscipline.
Word Forms
- pseudodisciplines
- pseudo-discipline
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include superdiscipline, subdiscipline, metadiscipline, interdiscipline, pseudoscience, pseudopsychology.
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