A pseudo argument is an argument that seems like a real argument, but doesn’t have the enough aspects to allow for growth or changes in opinions. Two circumstances that can cause this are fanatical believers or skeptics, and a lack of shared circumstances.
If the people in the argument are attached to their beliefs and refuse to change their views no matter what, the argument becomes a pseudo argument. Also, If there aren’t enough shared viewpoints that both sides agree are true, the argument again because a pseudo argument.
A pseudo argument that I see every year around November is the discussion around political parties. Often I find that strong adherents to the different political parties will dismiss others’ ideas just because they belong to the other party. When people don’t bother to even listen attentively to the other side and just automatically push them away because of a different political creed, a real argument is impossible and the only thing that results is shallow pseudo argument.
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