pseudomodel

plural pseudomodels

1. An incomplete or inaccurate version of a model.

   A pseudomodel M is called a model of S if all theorems provable in S are true in M.

   1979, Andrzej Mostowski, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Foundational Studies: Selected Works, volume 2, page 352

   2 more examples

   One of the major problems in applying bootstrap to model building procedures consists in choosing an appropriate pseudomodel.

   1992, Raoul LePage, Lynne Billard ·, Exploring the Limits of Bootstrap, page 386

   So we lean toward one side in this discussion: toward rejecting pseudomodels that claim to be universal, and rejecting an ethnic fatalism that would also imply a historical fatalism.

   1995, Catherine Samary, “Introduction”, in Peter Drucker, transl., Yugoslavia Dismembered, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 31