"phobosophy" meaning in Anglais

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Noun

IPA: \fɒˈbɒsəfɪ\
  1. Phobosophie.
    Sense id: fr-phobosophy-en-noun-4-lfRNlT Categories (other): Exemples en anglais, Exemples en anglais à traduire
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: phobosopher [rare] Related terms: sophophobia

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    "Inventé par John Desmond Bernal dans The Freedom of Necessity (1949). Composé du préfixe phob- (« peur ») de -o- et de sophy (« connaissance »), par opposition à philosophy. Comparer à sophophobia."
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          "text": "The great advantage of anti-philosophical philosophy, or what we might call phobosophy or fear of abstract knowledge, was that it enabled you to take the world exactly as you found it and adapt yourself to it to your own best advantage."
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          "ref": "The Jewish Quarterly Review, volumes 45–46, page 337, 1954",
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          "ref": "Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Second Sin, page 21, 1973",
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          "text": "‘[T]he best thoughts [of these scholars] could well be omitted’?? There must be a mistake. I couldn’t imagine such a severe case of phobosophy."
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