paralogism

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Now to these conceptions relate four paralogisms of a transcendental psychology, which is falsely held to be a science of pure reason, touching the nature of our thinking being.

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

I have never been able to satisfy myself whether they were deliberate paradoxes, or sincere and rather pathetic paralogisms.

From Matthew Arnold by Saintsbury, George

The Manichæan Secundums also reproaches him with comprehending nothing of the mysteries of Manichæism, and with attacking them only by mere paralogisms.

From A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" by Fran?ois-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire)

It contained only “lame and doubtful reasonings—such arguments as are termed paralogisms or involuntary sophisms, which escape the notice of their authors.”

From Pius IX. And His Time by Dawson, Æneas MacDonell

This section is a series of ingenious paralogisms.

From Literary Remains, Volume 2 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor