Pseudorational
adj
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Supposedly, but not actually, rational; having only a veneer of reason or logic. not-comparable
"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."
- 2 Able to be expressed as the convolution ratio of distributions with compact support. not-comparable
"It is found that some pseudorational families also have the Cartesian property."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From pseudo- + rational.
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