paralogism

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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

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

He's quiet enough now, but you just wait till he gets another paralogism.

From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose

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

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 Hobson, J. A. (John Atkinson)