paralogism

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In this manner the paralogism has its foundation in the nature of human reason, and is the parent of an unavoidable, though not insoluble, mental illusion.

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

The paralogism included in the very enunciation of the parallelist thesis is explained in a memoire presented to the Geneva International Philosophical Congress in 1904.

From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Benson, Vincent

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 Smith, David Eugene

As it is said by the author of the Nyáya-nirváṇa: The proof of the permanence of the transitory, as being both permanent and transitory, is a paralogism.

From The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha Review of the Different Systems of Hindu Philosophy by Acharya, Madhava

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 Spingarn, Joel Elias