| 释义 |
ˈpseudo-problem
[f. pseudo- + problem.]
A problem which is unreal either because it has no possible solution or because there exists a confusion in the elements of which it is composed.
1911W. James Some Probl. Philos. x. 156 There is a pseudo-problem, ‘How can the finite know the infinite?’ which has troubled some English heads. 1923Ogden & Richards Meaning of Meaning vii. 268 When the pseudo-problems due to cross vocabularies are removed. 1933Mind XLII. 339 The difficulty which, I think, led Russell to his theory of descriptions had its source in a mistake which logicians are prone to make, and which has given rise to many pseudo-problems. 1938C. W. Morris in Internat. Encycl. Unified Sci. I. ii. 57 Current scientific formulations embody many pseudo problems which arise from the confusion of statements in the language of semiotic and the thing-language. 1956E. Copleston Contemp. Philos. xii. 209 Some would wish to define a pseudo-problem as a question which we are unable to answer, not simply because we here and now lack the means of answering it,..but because no way of answering it is conceivable. 1979Trans. Philol. Soc. 209 The pseudo-problems introduced by prematurely formed classificatory schemes or prejudiced reactions to them. |