paralogism
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This we conceive to be the boldest paralogism that ever was offered to the world, or palmed upon willing credulity.
From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by William Hazlitt
I have before alluded to the faults of logic which are Protestant necessities: but I never said that Protestant argument had nothing but paralogism.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
On this dualistic basis, the ontological argument becomes a manifest paralogism, and lies open to all the objections that Kant brought against it.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
The two senses of the word "correlation" must be carefully distinguished; it would be a downright paralogism to adopt one of them in the premisses of the reasoning, and the other in the conclusion.
From Creative Evolution by Arthur Mitchell
This is a mere paralogism; we can never infer either absolute or infinite from relative or finite.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
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