Meaning of pseudodiscipline | Babel Free

Definitions

An area of study that has a limited resemblance to an academic discipline.

Examples

“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.”

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