paralogism
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To which Bowie, being a brother Scot, answered Scotticè, by a crafty paralogism.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley
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 Albert Taylor Bledsoe
This is the fundamental paralogism of that school of reformers who find the cure of industrial maladies in the humanisation of the private employer.
From The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
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 Joel Elias Spingarn
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 John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
