paralogism
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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
He's quiet enough now, but you just wait till he gets another paralogism.
From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce
I have before alluded to the faults of logic which are Protestant necessities: but I never said that Protestant argument had nothing but paralogism.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by David Eugene Smith
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
To which Bowie, being a brother Scot, answered Scotticè, by a crafty paralogism.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley