0 present participle of purport
1 to pretend to be or to do something, especially in a way that is not easy to believe:
The maxim is also a comprehensive representation of the world, a generalized description of the "real," purporting to swallow up all particular cases.
It begins by purporting to find analytical errors of the economist.
This assembly, purporting to be the collective focus of new inventions, must wield an unprecedented power of legitimation of scientific facts.
Problems arise when more detailed contentful hypotheses are offered purporting to explain the existence and mechanisms of particular psychological phenomena in specifically evolutionary terms.
The benefits of pooling the results of studies purporting to consider the same kind of service or intervention is questionable for this reason.
Therefore, all institutionalists should be interested in methodological arguments purporting to discredit the use of formal modeling in economics.
In purporting to underpin authority by a coherent intellectual and practical regime, psychology offers others both a grounding in truth and some formulae for efficacy.
My present objective is not to pass any judgement on the adequacy of this framework as a model purporting to represent reality.
