pseudomodel

English

Etymology

pseudo- +‎ model

Noun

pseudomodel (plural pseudomodels)

1. An incomplete or inaccurate version of a model.
   • 1992, Raoul LePage, Lynne Billard ·, Exploring the Limits of Bootstrap, page 386:

     One of the major problems in applying bootstrap to model building procedures consists in choosing an appropriate pseudomodel.

   • 1979, Andrzej Mostowski, Kazimierz Kuratowski, Foundational Studies: Selected Works, volume 2, page 352:

     A pseudomodel M is called a model of S if all theorems provable in S are true in M.

   • 1995, Catherine Samary, “Introduction”, in Peter Drucker, transl., Yugoslavia Dismembered, New York: Monthly Review Press, →ISBN, page 31:

     So we lean toward one side in this discussion: toward rejecting pseudomodels that claim to be universal, and rejecting an ethnic fatalism that would also imply a historical fatalism.