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 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 dialectical argument I shall call the transcendental paralogism.

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

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

The paralogism really lies in the assumption from which Hume deduced his theory, namely, that every idea is a copy of some impression.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William