pseudodebate

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + debate.

  1. derived from dis-
  2. derived from debatre
  3. inherited from debaten
  4. prefixed as pseudodebate — “pseudo + debate

Definitions

  1. 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.

The neighborhood

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