pseudorational
adjEtymology From pseudo- + rational.
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Supposedly, 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:
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Mathematics, Sciences Able 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: