pseudorational

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adjective

Supposedly, but not actually, rational; having only a veneer of reason or logic.

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Meanings

adjectivepseudorational (not comparable)
  1. not comparableSupposedly, but not actually, rational; having only a veneer of reason or logic.

    For these reasons, the self-deceiver is particularly recalcitrant and impervious to any attempts of her own to survey and critically revise her own pseudorational self-conception.

    1988, Brian P. McLaughlin, Amélie Rorty, Perspectives on Self-Deception, page 318
  2. not comparablemathematicsAble to be expressed as the convolution ratio of distributions with compact support.

    It is found that some pseudorational families also have the Cartesian property.

    1991, Russian Mathematical Surveys, page 38

Origin

From pseudo- + rational.

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