paralogism
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To which Bowie, being a brother Scot, answered Scotticè, by a crafty paralogism.
From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley
He's quiet enough now, but you just wait till he gets another paralogism.
From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Ambrose Bierce
The paralogism of Vega as to this perplexing question seems to lurk in the position that God gives a law which it is impossible we should obey collectively.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge
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
Malebranche eluded the question, and could not assign the paralogism, after which Mairan so earnestly sought: ‘It is not that the paralogism is in such or such places of the Ethique, it is everywhere.’
From A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory by Albert Taylor Bledsoe
