Pseudoanalytical
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Pseudoanalytical is an adjective meaning Having a false appearance of relying on legitimate analysis; based on technobabble, false assumptions, or false arguments.
Meaning
Having a false appearance of relying on legitimate analysis; based on technobabble, false assumptions, or false arguments.
More Meanings
- (mathematics) Relying on simplifying assumptions in order to create a less complex alternative to a full analytical approach.
- Similar to or having the appearance of psychoanalysis.
Example Sentences
We use the method of pseudoanalytical continuation to obtain the characterization of these spaces in terms of polynomial approximations.
Pseudoanalytical arguments, on the other hand, exploit impressionable individuals and bestow legitimacy on perhaps spurious beliefs and parochial hidden agendas.
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.
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.
Word Forms
- pseudo-analytical
- pseudo analytical
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include bogus, falsidical, pseudolegal, sophistical, disingenuous, misleading.
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