paralogism
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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 Coleridge, Henry Nelson
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
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
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 Stimson, Dorothy
He's quiet enough now, but you just wait till he gets another paralogism.
From Cobwebs from an Empty Skull by Bierce, Ambrose
