pseudorational

adjective2

1. •
   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. — 1988
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. — 1991