Pseudosophical and alethosophical

-- pseudosophical, courtesy of Ian Cargan Dengler:

"pseudosophy pretension to wisdom"

"This group of 30 odd 'sophy' and 'sopher' words have in common an etymological derivation from the Greek sophia, meaning 'wisdom'. They refer to an odd group of systems of knowledge, esoteric doctrines and other principles, most of which are obsolete or extremely rare, with philosophy being the only major exception. Not quite sciences or studies, nor are they isms, they tend to refer to mystical or occult concepts rather than strictly religious or scientific canons of knowledge."

http://phrontistery.50megs.com/wisdom.html

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I posted to "Eternal City" a note on Carnap on the pseudo-problems. These are 'scheinprobleme', but 'schein', cognate with 'shine' does not do in English, and we prefer 'pseudo-'. Well, I don't but you get the drift.

In Greek, they lacked a word for 'that's FALSE!'. They would say, "That's Pseudo!"

Similarly, I talk of 'aletho-sophy', the alternate to pseudo-. Etc.