pseudophilosophy
nounEtymology From pseudo- + philosophy.
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Derogatory Fake or very bad philosophy.
- If I were to say that the so-called philosophy of this fellow Hegel is a colossal piece of mystification which will yet provide posterity with an inexhaustible theme for laughter at our times, that it is a pseudophilosophy paralyzing all mental powers, stifling all real thinking, and, by the most outrageous misuse of language, putting in its place the hollowest, most senseless, thoughtless, and, as is confirmed by its success, most stupefying verbiage, I should be quite right.1965, E.F.J.Payne translating Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Basis of Morality:
- Related terms
- pseudophilosopher, pseudophilosophic, pseudophilosophical