paralogism

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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

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

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

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

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 Saintsbury, George

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