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

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

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

I certainly agree to all the rest with you, but Aristotle's law I think involves a paralogism, for by this argument the heavens should be immobile since they are in a place fitting their nature.

From The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Stimson, Dorothy

But even that pleasing paralogism did not suffice for the appetite of tariffism in the way of fallacy.

From Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 by Various