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- uncountableA hypothesized explanation of the nature of reality that lacks the rigor of true metaphysics, especially one that involves a supersensual realm or phenomena which transcend the physical world.
Mill's attempt to answer this pseudometaphysical question is so admirable that it almost raises pseudometaphysics to the rank of a science.
2016, R. G. Collingwood, An Essay on Metaphysics, →ISBN2 more examples
Finally, with good reason, this psychology aims to be a psychology of a purely empiriological type. It is pervaded and overwhelmed on every side, however, by a pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar character, which Freud is all the less anxious to dispense with as he imagines he has no philosophy or metaphysics at all. I say pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar type, because it combines all the prejudices of deterministic, mechanistic scientism with all the prejudices of irrationalism.
1964, Cross Currents of Psychiatry and Catholic Morality, page 351Without the explanatory dimension, insights into concrete data regarding reality, the ethical, human life and relationships run the risk of shading off into a pseudometaphysics that is in fact mythical.
2008, Andrew Beards, Method in Metaphysics: Lonergan and the Future of Analytical Philosophy, →ISBN
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