paralogism
Example Sentences
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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 George Saintsbury
Finally, according to this theory of Dr. T., he and all those who reason like him, are chargeable, I think, with a palpable paralogism they reason in a circle.
From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Wilbur Fisk
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
He's quiet enough now, but you just wait till he gets another paralogism.
From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce
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
