paralogism

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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 Smith, David Eugene

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 Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

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 Spingarn, Joel Elias

This dialectical argument I shall call the transcendental paralogism.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

This we conceive to be the boldest paralogism that ever was offered to the world, or palmed upon willing credulity.

From The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits by Hazlitt, William