SINCE 1828
pseudostatement
noun
pseu·do·statement
| \ ¦sü(ˌ)dō+\
Definition of pseudostatement
1
: a statement that cannot be empirically verified
especially
: a statement made in a poem
2
: a sentence that is grammatically correct yet fails to express a total sense (as in the sentence “the true is more identical than the beautiful”)
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