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pseudodiscipline

noun

Etymology

From pseudo- + discipline.

  1. derived from *dek-✻
  2. derived from disciplina
  3. derived from descipline
  4. prefixed as pseudodiscipline — “pseudo + discipline”

Definitions

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

    • 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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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA