pseudo-rationalityn.
/ˌs(j)uːdə(ʊ)raʃəˈnalᵻti/, U.S. /ˈˌsudoʊˌræʃəˈnælədi/ Pseudo-rational quality or nature; a system or argument characterized by this; = pseudo-rationalism n.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > [noun] > false rationalism
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pseudo-rationality1892
1892 Philos. Rev. 1 539 Humbling the pretensions of this pseudo-rationality does good service in drawing attention to the commonest..tests of reality.
1909 W. James Pluralistic Universe v. 211 Hegel was the first non-mystical writer to face the dilemma squarely and throw away the ordinary logic, saving a pseudo-rationality for the universe by inventing the higher logic of the ‘dialectic process’.
1947 L. Stein Appreciation iii. 49 There was, in my opinion, only a pretense of rationality in their processes, only pseudo-rationality.
1957 E. M. Manasse in P. A. Schilpp Philos. Karl Jaspers viii. 381 Kant's insistence on the difference between rational empirical knowledge and the pseudorationality of an objective metaphysics.
1995 Independent (Nexis) 22 Jan. 18 Rousseau fell back on exactly the sort of pseudo-rationality that some people are now using about the Kobe earthquake.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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