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NINISME [2 records]

Record 1 2016-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Existentialist Doctrines
  • Sociology of Ideologies
DEF

[An] ideological form of myth in discourse ... in which the attempt to choose between options is erased in the name of balance.

Key term(s)
  • neithernorism

French

Domaine(s)
  • Doctrines existentialistes
  • Sociologie des idéologies
CONT

Le ninisme. [...] cette figure mythologique qui consiste à poser deux contraires et à balancer l'un par l'autre de façon à les rejeter tous deux.

Key term(s)
  • ni-nisme

Spanish

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Record 2 1991-05-30

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Psychology
DEF

A response bias to disagree with a statement no matter what its nature.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie sociale
DEF

Sorte de dialectique fausse et faussée qui consiste à mettre en rapport deux termes qui s'excluent (ni...ni).

Spanish

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