paralogism

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This dialectical argument I shall call the transcendental paralogism.

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

First, it contains no paralogism, no logical or psychological error, since it does not advance the supposition that the mental differs by its nature from the physical phenomenon.

From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred

Thus it is evident that in all such arguments there lurks a paralogism.

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

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 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