"pseudometaphysics" meaning in English

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          "text": "Without the explanatory dimension, insights into concrete data regarding reality, the ethical, human life and relationships run the risk of shading off into a pseudometaphysics that is in fact mythical.",
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          "text": "Mill's attempt to answer this pseudometaphysical question is so admirable that it almost raises pseudometaphysics to the rank of a science.",
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