paralogism
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The paralogism of Vega as to this perplexing question seems to lurk in the position that God gives a law which it is impossible we should obey collectively.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
The poets accept the existence of the gods from the common notion of men, and then treat all that relates to these deities in accordance with this system of paralogism.
From A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism by Joel Elias Spingarn
He's quiet enough now, but you just wait till he gets another paralogism.
From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce
The logical paralogism consists in the falsity of an argument in respect of its form, be the content what it may.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
First, it contains no paralogism, no logical or psychological error, since it does not advance the supposition that the mental differs by its nature from the physical phenomenon.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
