paralogism

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This dialectical argument I shall call the transcendental paralogism.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

Finally, according to this theory of Dr. T., he and all those who reason like him, are chargeable, I think, with a palpable paralogism they reason in a circle.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur

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 Coleridge, Henry Nelson

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 Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

This is the fundamental paralogism of that school of reformers who find the cure of industrial maladies in the humanisation of the private employer.

From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)