Paralogism

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  • noun. A fallacious or illogical argument or conclusion.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In logic, fallacious argument or false reasoning; reasoning which is false in form—that is, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises; a conclusion unwarranted by the premises.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A reasoning which is false in point of form, that is, which is contrary to logical rules or formulæ; a formal fallacy, or pseudo-syllogism, in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises.
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  • noun. A fallacious argument or illogical conclusion, especially one committed by mistake, or believed by the speaker to be logical.
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  • noun. an unintentionally invalid argument
    • Word Usage
    "There lurks in the procedure of rational Psychology a paralogism, which is represented in the following syllogism:"
    cross-reference
    syllogism  transcendental paralogism  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    fallacy  false belief  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    aesthetic  antithetic  apperception  conventionalism  cozenage  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Aristotelian sorites  Goclenian sorites  argument  argument by analogy  argumentum ad baculum  
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