pseudoanalytical

adj

Etymology

From pseudo- + analytical.

Definitions

  1. Having a false appearance of relying on legitimate analysis

    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.
    • Pseudoanalytical arguments, on the other hand, exploit impressionable individuals and bestow legitimacy on perhaps spurious beliefs and parochial hidden agendas.
  2. Relying on simplifying assumptions in order to create a less complex alternative to a…

    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.
  3. Similar to or having the appearance of psychoanalysis.

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