Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or characterized by pseudophilosophy.
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- adjective Apparently, but not actually,
philosophical ; havingpretensions tophilosophy .
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Examples
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Sutherlands/Roberts Flatliners (this nevertheless importantly more excitingly) and Steven Kings pseudophilosophical blood Erguessen ...
Lost in Translation 2008
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Sutherlands/Roberts Flatliners (this nevertheless importantly more excitingly) and Steven Kings pseudophilosophical blood Erguessen ...
April 2008 2008
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I think it's one of the worst films i've ever seen, and with its thin-as-razor-story, bad acting, shitty effects and pompous, pseudophilosophical ending it's still beating something like 'Transformers' on a shit-o-meter-scale.
Tron Legacy's Joe Kosinski Remaking Disney's The Black Hole « FirstShowing.net 2009
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The other possibility is that the “arguments” are pseudoscientific or pseudophilosophical but reflective of an a priori animus at their core.
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Whatever, Jake wanted to say, but he knew better than to mouth off when his dad got pseudophilosophical.
Sleepless Thomas Fahy 2009
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For political reasons, in some forums, they pretend to support a narrow, divisive, authoritarian religious position with pseudophilosophical claptrap.
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A typical sample of his droning, pseudophilosophical nonsense.
The Dreamthief's Daughter Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2001
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"Weltanschauung" not so much has to do with one Francis Schaeffer, a bearded, turtlenecked Christian sub - or pseudophilosophical writer who was popular especially in the 1970s.
Radosh.net 2008
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They didn’t understand that the debate had nothing to do with science; it was really religious and pseudophilosophical.
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Then, also for political and legal reasons, in other forums, they have to argue that their pseudophilosophical claptrap isn’t related to the very religious position it was invented to pander to, and laughably pretend that it is some kind of spontaneous insight.
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