This being considered, the occasion of a most frequent paralogism is removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

Now, truly, this is the same paralogism: who says we are in the truth? others? no, ourselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference

Kant, for example, argued for a dissociation here, in his famous critique of the third paralogism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unity of Consciousness] Reference

A man, who was sensible of this paralogism, could never take Mr Arnold's views on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Arnold] Reference

This we conceive to be the boldest paralogism that ever was offered to the world, or palmed upon willing credulity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference

The paralogism included in the very enunciation of the parallelist thesis is explained in a memoire presented to the Geneva.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson] Reference

A vast amount of confusion and paralogism respecting the grounds of Induction would be dispelled by keeping in view these simple considerations.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference

This is the fundamental paralogism of that school of reformers who find the cure of industrial maladies in the humanisation of the private employer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Evolution of Modern Capitalism A Study of Machine Production] Reference

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 Wordnik.com.  [The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps] Reference

The two senses of the word "correlation" must be carefully distinguished; it would be a downright paralogism to adopt one of them in the premisses of the reasoning, and the other in the conclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution créatrice. English] Reference

This is an example of the paralogism of 'proving too much'; when a disputant is so eager to refute an opponent as to lay down, or imply, principles from which an easy inference destroys his own position.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference

And if such a paralogism has taken place, and that in consequence of the influence of the Baconian philosophy, it shows us what comes of the intrusion of that philosophy into a province with which it had no concern.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin] Reference

When the Inquiring Soul had completed his course of instruction he declared himself the Ahkoond of Swat, fell into the baleful habit of standing on his head, and swore that the mother who bore him was a pragmatic paralogism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantastic Fables]

All the layered sophistry and paralogism of African dictators is intended to mask their insatiable hunger for power and produce one set of self-serving axiomatic conclusions: Africa is not yet ready for genuine multiparty democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

Oxford; for Oxford is no worse than in 1829, while Westminster is far above what she ever has been: election time excuses even such a parenthesis as this -- be engaged to amuse those who can afford it with paralogism at their meals, after the manner of the other jokers who wore the caps and bells.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)] Reference

The study of the natural sciences trains and confirms the mind in a habit of good reasoning, which is the surest preservative against paralogism, as long as the terms in use are, like those of science, well defined; and where they are ill defined, so that it is necessary to guard against ambiguity, a thorough training in politics or metaphysics may be useful.    From Wordnik.com.  [Logic Deductive and Inductive] Reference

For what is a metaphor or a simile but a mere paralogism -- having nothing to do with the matter in hand, and not to be allowed for a moment to influence the reader's judgment, unless there be some real and objective analogy -- homology we should call it -- between the physical phenomenon from which the symbol is taken, and the spiritual truth which it is meant to illustrate?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary and General Lectures and Essays] Reference

"psycho-physiological paralogism" to pieces before their eyes; it is only by confounding in one and the same argument two systems of incompatible notations, idealism and realism, that we succeed in enunciating the parallelist thesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [A New Philosophy: Henri Bergson] Reference

He forgot that all the apologetics in the world are based upon just this audacious paralogism. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference

” (16) In this impatient judgment, Father Malebranche uttered more truth than he could very well perceive; the paralogism is truly everywhere, because this whole edifice of words, “this frightful chimera,” is really assumed in the arbitrary definition of the term substance.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Theodicy, or, Vindication of the Divine Glory] Reference

I mean the use of paralogism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poetics. English] Reference