paralogism

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On this dualistic basis, the ontological argument becomes a manifest paralogism, and lies open to all the objections that Kant brought against it.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various

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 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

The two senses of the word "correlation" must be carefully distinguished; it would be a downright paralogism to adopt one of them in the premisses of the reasoning, and the other in the conclusion.

From Creative Evolution by Mitchell, Arthur

I have before alluded to the faults of logic which are Protestant necessities: but I never said that Protestant argument had nothing but paralogism.

From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II by Smith, David Eugene