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paralogism

[ puh-ral-uh-jiz-uhm ]

noun

Logic.
  1. argument violating principles of valid reasoning.
  2. a conclusion reached through such argument.


paralogism

/ ±èəˈ°ùæ±ôəˌ»åÏôɪ³úÉ™³¾ /

noun

  1. logic psychol an argument that is unintentionally invalid Compare sophism
  2. any invalid argument or conclusion
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ±è²¹ËŒ°ù²¹±ô´Çˈ²µ¾±²õ³Ù¾±³¦, adjective
  • ±è²¹Ëˆ°ù²¹±ô´Ç²µ¾±²õ³Ù, noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of paralogism1

1555–65; < Late Latin paralogismus < Greek ±è²¹°ù²¹±ô´Ç²µ¾±²õ³¾Ã³²õ. See para- 1, logo-, -ism
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of paralogism1

C16: via Late Latin from Greek paralogismos, from paralogizesthai to argue fallaciously, from para- 1+ -logizesthai, ultimately from logos word
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Finally, according to this theory of Dr. T., he and all those who reason like him, are chargeable, I think, with a palpable paralogism they reason in a circle.

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The poets accept the existence of the gods from the common notion of men, and then treat all that relates to these deities in accordance with this system of paralogism.

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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.

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As it is said by the author of the Nyáya-nirváṇa: The proof of the permanence of the transitory, as being both permanent and transitory, is a 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.

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