pseudoanalytical

Definitions

1. Having a false appearance of relying on legitimate analysis; based on technobabble, false assumptions, or false arguments.
   not-comparable
2. Relying on simplifying assumptions in order to create a less complex alternative to a full analytical approach.
   not-comparable
3. Similar to or having the appearance of psychoanalysis.
   not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“We use⟳ the method of pseudoanalytical continuation to obtain⟳ the characterization of these spaces in terms of polynomial approximations.”

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