paralogism
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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 Joel Elias Spingarn
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
This is a mere paralogism; we can never infer either absolute or infinite from relative or finite.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
But a transcendental paralogism has a transcendental foundation, and concludes falsely, while the form is correct and unexceptionable.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
