pseudorational

adj

Etymology

From pseudo- + rational.

  1. derived from rationalis
  2. derived from rational
  3. prefixed as pseudorational — “pseudo + rational

Definitions

  1. Supposedly, but not actually, rational

    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.
  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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pseudorational. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA