paralogism
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First, it contains no paralogism, no logical or psychological error, since it does not advance the supposition that the mental differs by its nature from the physical phenomenon.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet
But a transcendental paralogism has a transcendental foundation, and concludes falsely, while the form is correct and unexceptionable.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
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 George Saintsbury
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 included in the very enunciation of the parallelist thesis is explained in a memoire presented to the Geneva International Philosophical Congress in 1904.
From A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson by Vincent Benson
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