pseudodebate
nounEtymology
From pseudo- + debate.
Definitions
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.
- 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.
- We have already seen one such noncontroversy in the form of the pseudodebate about Lyme disease.
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