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Pseudo

The prefix pseudo (from Greek ?e?d?? "lying, false") is used to mark something as false, fraudulent, or pretending to be something it is not:

pseudo-scholarship
Pseudo-scholarship

There are many types of Pseudo-scholarship:*Pseudoscience*Pseudohistory*Pseudoarchaeology*Pseudolinguistics...
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pseudoscience
Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience is any knowledge, methodology, belief, or practice that is claimed to be scientific, or that is made to appear to be scientific, but which does not adhere to the scientific method, lacks supporting evidence or plausibility, or otherwise lacks scientific status....
pseudophilosophy
Pseudophilosophy

Pseudophilosophy, generally, refers to any idea or system that is asserted to be philosophy while significantly failing to meet scholarly standards of philosophy....
pseudohistory
Pseudohistory

Pseudohistory is a pejorative term applied to texts which purport to be history in nature but which depart from standard Historical method in a way which undermines their conclusions....
pseudoarchaeology
Pseudoarchaeology

Pseudoarchaeology is pseudoscientific archaeology, the scientific method interpretation of material remains and sites . Archaeological theories, site excavations and publications which do not conform to standard accepted archaeological methodology are generally considered to fall under the category of pseudoarchaeology....
pseudolinguistics (disambiguation)

literature

pseudonym
Pseudonym

A pseudonym, , is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name. In some cases, pseudonyms are adopted because it is part of a cultural or organizational tradition, as in the case of Religious names used by members of some religious orders and "cadre names" used by Communist party leaders such as Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin....
pseudepigraphy
Pseudepigraphy

Pseudepigrapha are falsely attributed works, texts whose claimed authorship is unfounded; a work, simply, "whose real author attributed it to a figure of the past." For instance, no Hebrew scholars would ascribe the Book of Enoch to Enoch , a character mentioned in Generations of Adam....

Pseudo-Aristotle
Pseudo-Aristotle

Pseudo-Aristotle is a general Wiktionary:cognomen for authors of philosophical or medical treatises who attributed their work to the Greek philosophy Aristotle, or whose work was later attributed to him by others....
Pseudo-Apollodorus
Pseudo-Eratosthenes
Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius
Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius

The Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius is a 7th-century apocalypse that shaped the eschatology imagination of Christendom throughout the Middle Ages....
Pseudo-Apuleius
Pseudo-Apuleius

Pseudo-Apuleius refers to the author of a Herbarium or De herbarum virtutibus; it is a medical herbal of the 5th century, A.D.A 10th century manuscript of the work is in the Musee Meermanno Westreenianum, The Hague ....
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, also known as Pseudo-Denys, is the anonymous theologian and philosopher of the late 5th century to early 6th century whose Corpus Areopagiticum was pseudepigraphy ascribed to Dionysius the Areopagite, the Athenian convert of Paul of Tarsus mentioned in ....

science and technology

pseudorandom
pseudocode
Pseudocode

Pseudocode is a compact and informal high-level description of a computer programming algorithm that uses the structural conventions of some programming language, but is intended for human reading rather than machine reading....
pseudohalogen
Pseudohalogen

Pseudohalogens are binary inorganic Chemical compound of the general form XY, where X is a cyanide, cyanate, thiocyanate etc. group and Y is any of X, or a true halogen....
pseudocopulation
Pseudocopulation

Pseudocopulation describes behaviors similar to copulation that serve a reproductive function for one or both participants but do not involve actual sexual union between the individuals....
pseudo-penis
Pseudo-penis

A pseudo-penis is a term used of any structure found on an animal that while superficially appearing to be a penis, is derived from a different developmental path....

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