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

A man, who was sensible of this paralogism, could never take Mr Arnold’s views on Church and Religion at all.

From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George

To which Bowie, being a brother Scot, answered Scotticè, by a crafty paralogism.

From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Kingsley, Charles

He's quiet enough now, but you just wait till he gets another paralogism.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose

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