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pseudorational en · ADJ

Etymology

From pseudo- + rational.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) 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. (not-comparable) 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: