"pseudofact" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1988 February 26, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Form Counts”, in Chicago Reader",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1981, United States Political Science Documents, page 311",
          "text": "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.",
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