pseudo-problemn.

1903 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 14 41 This problem can scarcely be solved and may in the last instance turn out to be a pseudo-problem.

1911 W. James Some Probl. Philos. x. 156 There is a pseudo-problem, ‘How can the finite know the infinite?’ which has troubled some English heads.

1923 C. K. Ogden & I. A. Richards Meaning of Meaning vii. 268 When the pseudo-problems due to cross vocabularies are removed.

1938 C. W. Morris in Internat. Encycl. Unified Sci. I. ii. 57 Current scientific formulations embody many pseudo problems which arise from the confusion of statements in the language of semiotic and the thing-language.

1956 F. C. Copleston Contemp. Philos. xii. 209 Some would wish to define a pseudo-problem as a question which we are unable to answer, not simply because we here and now lack the means of answering it,..but because no way of answering it is conceivable.

1979 Trans. Philol. Soc. 209 The pseudo-problems introduced by prematurely formed classificatory schemes or prejudiced reactions to them.

1993 C. J. Beck Nothing Special (1994) iv. 138 We don't see that our surface problem is merely the tip of the iceberg. In fact, what we think of as our problem is really a pseudoproblem.