paralogism
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I certainly agree to all the rest with you, but Aristotle's law I think involves a paralogism, for by this argument the heavens should be immobile since they are in a place fitting their nature.
From The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Dorothy Stimson
But even that pleasing paralogism did not suffice for the appetite of tariffism in the way of fallacy.
From Essays in Liberalism Being the Lectures and Papers Which Were Delivered at the Liberal Summer School at Oxford, 1922 by Various
Thus it is evident that in all such arguments there lurks a paralogism.
From The Critique of Pure Reason by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
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
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
