pseudoanalytical

English

Alternative forms

• pseudo-analytical, pseudo analytical

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ analytical

Adjective

pseudoanalytical (not comparable)

1. Having a false appearance of relying on legitimate analysis; based on technobabble, false assumptions, or false arguments.
   • 1971, Walter P. Falcon, Gustav Fritz Papanek, Development policy II--the Pakistan experience, page 193:

     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.

   • 2001, Elio Frattaroli, Healing the Soul in the Age of the Brain:

     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.

   • 2004, Michael A. Caloyannides, Privacy Protection and Computer Forensics, →ISBN, page 298:

     Pseudoanalytical arguments, on the other hand, exploit impressionable individuals and bestow legitimacy on perhaps spurious beliefs and parochial hidden agendas.

2. (mathematics) Relying on simplifying assumptions in order to create a less complex alternative to a full analytical approach.
   • 2016, Alexander Rotkevich, “Constructive description of Hardy-Sobolev spaces in $\mathbb {C} ^{n}$”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     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.