paralogism

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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

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

On this dualistic basis, the ontological argument becomes a manifest paralogism, and lies open to all the objections that Kant brought against it.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

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

Malebranche eluded the question, and could not assign the paralogism, after which Mairan so earnestly sought: ‘It is not that the paralogism is in such or such places of the Ethique, it is everywhere.’

From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor