Obscurantism

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title: Obscurantism
text: In philosophy, the terms obscurantism and obscurationism identify and describe the anti-intellectual practices of deliberately presenting information in an abstruse and imprecise manner that limits further inquiry and understanding of a subject. The two historical and intellectual denotations of obscurantism are: (1) the deliberate restriction of knowledge — opposition to the dissemination of knowledge; and (2) deliberate obscurity — a recondite style of writing characterized by deliberate vague
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description: Practice of obscuring information
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscurantism
date created: 2004-07-23T13:19:43Z
date modified: 2024-09-01T20:51:38Z
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