Word: pseudo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard is an archaic institution that came out in the days of monarchical and colonial America--it has a pseudo-feudal style that is not at all representative of democratization," he explains...
...century philosopher as the sort of non-Jewish Jew who sacrifices the soul of rationalism to cold logic. He quotes Soviet Writer Isaac Babel's self-mocking definition of a Jewish intellectual ("a man with spectacles on his nose and autumn in his heart") and brands Marx and Freud pseudo scientists...
...political "science" is the classification of the Union of South Africa as a "satisfied society". In what sense were (are) 20 million Blacks "satisfied"? In 1968? Today? Note how Huntington's political opinion about the Union of South Africa being a "satisfied society" is embedded in a tissue of pseudo-science consisting of "equations," "correlations," decimal figure, "ratios," and a type of language which gives the illusion of science without any of its substance...
...virtually insure" or "the greater the probability," in the context of tables, numbers, probability and variables, give the illusion of science without its content. Of course, there was political instability in the Philippines before Marcos departed, and there continues to be. I do not question that. I question the pseudo-scientific context of Huntington's article...
Some social scientists of the Academy, inanswer to the critics, have tried to make a casethat "ambiguity" is inherent in the socialsciences. For example, an anonymous member ofClass V told the Harvard Crimson reporter(13 March) that the critiques of Huntington's workas pseudo-science by hard scientists in theAcademy reflect their psychological inability toaccept ambiguity. "I don't know that any socialscientist would meet their standards. They arepsychologically angered by it. They are people whowant certainty," the member is quoted as saying."They have no tolerance for ambiguity." Whoeverthe member was, his statement is very similar tothe statement...