Meaning of confusionism | Babel Free

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Any doctrine or philosophy that serves to confuse people.

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“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 theoretical confusionism that makes it difficult to determine⟳ what theory is.”

“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' […]”

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