paralogism

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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

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

To which Bowie, being a brother Scot, answered Scotticè, by a crafty paralogism.

From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Kingsley, Charles

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

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