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pseudoanalytical en · ADJ

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Etymology

From pseudo- + analytical.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Having a false appearance of relying on legitimate analysis; based on technobabble, false assumptions, or false arguments.
   • In our time there predominates an analytical, reductive, and deriving look between man and man. This look is analytical, or rather pseudoanalytical, since it treats the whole being as put together and therefore able to be taken apart. 2001, Elio Frattaroli, Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain:
   • A works program, in the context of the labor surplus which in the East Wing, as in India, is probably of the order of 25%, is so obvious a necessity that I find myself getting furious at the array of argument, pseudoanalytical or practical, that is thrown up. 1971, Walter P. Falcon, Gustav Fritz Papanek, Development policy II--the Pakistan experience, page 193:
   • Pseudoanalytical arguments, on the other hand, exploit impressionable individuals and bestow legitimacy on perhaps spurious beliefs and parochial hidden agendas. 2004, Michael A. Caloyannides, Privacy Protection and Computer Forensics, →ISBN, page 298:
2. (not-comparable) Relying on simplifying assumptions in order to create a less complex alternative to a full analytical approach.
   • We use the method of pseudoanalytical continuation to obtain the characterization of these spaces in terms of polynomial approximations. 2016, Alexander Rotkevich, “Constructive description of Hardy-Sobolev spaces in ℂⁿ”, in arXiv:
3. (not-comparable) Similar to or having the appearance of psychoanalysis.

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