Meanings
- uncountableAny doctrine or philosophy that serves to confuse people.
Let us not forget, moreover, that objectivism still boasts staunch defenders in contemporary thought, who typically level facile charges of confusionism or obtuseness against so called 'postmodern scepticism' […]
2012, A. Kioupkiolis, Freedom After the Critique of Foundations1 more example
Yet it is this very proliferation that has induced Stanley Fish to proclaim the imminent demise of theory, a demise whose most telling symptom is precisely the "noise" generated by theory. Commenting on and extending Fish's line of argument, Vincent Descombes argues that we have entered a phase of theoretical confusionism that makes it difficult to determine what theory is.
1989, Thomas M. Kavanagh, The Limits of Theory, page 168
Origin
Translations
Catalan confusionisme
- confusionismea strategy of maintaining confusion
French confusionnisme
- confusionnismea strategy of maintaining confusion
Russian запутаи́зм
- запутаи́зм (zaputaízm)a strategy of maintaining confusion
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