Etymology

not even wrong

Today it means: Of a supposedly scientific argument or explanation: unable to be meaningfully discussed because it is based on fundamentally invalid reasoning or speculative premises that cannot be proven or falsified. Full definition →

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Generally attributed to theoretical physicist Wolfgang Pauli.

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