Meaning of pseudofact | Babel Free

Definitions

Something that seems to be a fact, but is not

Examples

“The film complicates matters by casting Christine Hebert (a sometime underground filmmaker in her own right) as Pizzorno, with Moullet playing himself, thereby juxtaposing pseudofiction with pseudofact in a way that undermines the rhetorical strategies of both, leaving only a sweet, tragicomic pathos as residue.”

“It is argued that the conclusion of previous research efforts that class voting in Canada is virtually nonexistent is a pseudofact stemming from theoretical and methodological problems.”

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