pseudofact

English

Etymology

From pseudo- +‎ fact.

Pronunciation

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Noun

pseudofact (plural pseudofacts)

1. Something that seems to be a fact, but is not
   • 1988 February 26, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Form Counts”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     The film complicates matters by casting Christine Hebert (a sometime underground filmmaker in her own right) as Pizzorno, with Moullet playing himself, thereby juxtaposing pseudofiction with pseudofact in a way that undermines the rhetorical strategies of both, leaving only a sweet, tragicomic pathos as residue.

   • 1981, United States Political Science Documents‎^[2], page 311:

     It is argued that the conclusion of previous research efforts that class voting in Canada is virtually nonexistent is a pseudofact stemming from theoretical and methodological problems.