pseudodebate
nounEtymology From pseudo- + debate.
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.1996, Dennis Michael Patterson, Wayne A. Patterson, Law and Truth, page 129:
- 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.1998, Tom Athanasiou, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor, page 80:
1 more example
- We have already seen one such noncontroversy in the form of the pseudodebate about Lyme disease.2016, Steven Hatch, Snowball in a Blizzard: