pseudodiscipline

plural pseudodisciplines · alternative pseudo-discipline

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.

   1974, John Somerville, Howard L. Parsons, Dialogues on the Philosophy of Marxism, page 77

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   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.

   2009, Vladislav Zubok, V. M Zubok, Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia, page 381