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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
pseudo- + discipline
Noun
pseudodiscipline (plural pseudodisciplines)
- An area of study that has a limited resemblance to an academic discipline.
1974, John Somerville, Howard L. Parsons, Dialogues on the Philosophy of Marxism, page 77: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.
2009, Vladislav Zubok, V. M Zubok, Zhivago's Children: The Last Russian Intelligentsia, page 381: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.
Italian
Noun
pseudodiscipline f pl
- plural of pseudodisciplina
1975, Guido Canella, Lucio Stellario D'Angiolini, Università: ragione, contesto, tipo, page 9:In luogo di quella che allora consideravamo strada obbligata per rifondare la conoscenza, partendo dai problemi posti dalla realtà, troviamo l'istaurazione repressiva di un Comitato tecnico voluta dal Rettorato del Politecnico di Milano e imposta dal Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione (7), che è riuscita a smantellare la presenza attiva e di massa degli studenti; a tenere isolati gli studenti-lavoratori; a privilegiare tra i docenti le rivendicazioni di categoria, cui conseguono una conoscenza e una didattica discriminate ideologicamente (astrattamente) e, talora, ancora lottizzate per vecchie e nuove pseudodiscipline.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)