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What are Psuedo-Philosophers?

What exactly is a Pseudo Philosopher?

are they people who Philosophize without a philosophy of their own in general? or is it anyone who isn't recognized in the field of Philosophy to be credible as a philosopher?

I don't want the understanding of that to be Ambiguous, seeing as it's likely the reason why some today call people that, who aren't quite fit for the term.

Example: i have come across "Dionysus" and "Pseudo Dionysus" but does the pseudo here mean that someone is running around using Dionysus's philosophy with their own reasoning behind why Dionysus did it?

or for instance Peterson uses A LOT of Jung.......and I personally think his 12 rules are ideals you'd find by understanding Jung in general anyway.

For instance Peterson saying "clean your damn room" is jung's take on steps to facing your own shadow, just compacted into a saying like that, that generally means the same thing, without the actual philosophy that reading Jung would put behind it.  


Would that make Peterson "Pseudo Jung"?
gpt
Names like "Pseudo-X" are used by historians and other writers to describe authors who referred to themselves (or signed their work) as character/figure X, but weren't the same individual. Pseudo-Dionysius was a writer who signed his work as "Dionysius the Areopagite", as opposed to the Dionysius the Areopagite from the Bible. Using a pseudonym has no bearing on being a pseudo-philosopher or not.