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pseudorational

pseudorational adjective: supposedly, but not actually, rational; having only a veneer of reason or logic.

Adjective

pseudorational (not comparable)

  1. 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
  2. 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

Origin of pseudorational

From pseudo- + rational.

Questions about pseudorational

What does pseudorational mean?
Pseudorational means supposedly, but not actually, rational; having only a veneer of reason or logic.
What part of speech is pseudorational?
Pseudorational is an adjective.

Words near pseudorational in the dictionary

  1. pseudoraphe
  2. pseudoraphes
  3. pseudorapidities
  4. pseudorapidity
  5. pseudoratiometric
  6. pseudorational
  7. pseudorationalism
  8. pseudorationalist
  9. pseudorationalists
  10. pseudoreaction
  11. pseudoreactions

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