Paralogism Definition

pə-rălə-jĭzəm
noun
Reasoning contrary to the rules of logic; faulty argument.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Paralogism

Noun

Singular:
paralogism
Plural:
paralogisms

Origin of Paralogism

  • Late Latin paralogismus from Greek paralogismos from paralogos unreasonable para- beyond para–1 logos reason leg- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French paralogisme, form Latin paralogismus, from Ancient Greek παραλογισμός (paralogismos).

    From Wiktionary

Paralogism Sentence Examples

  • In 1628 Castelli published a small work, Della misura dell' acque correnti, in which he satisfactorily explained several phenomena in the motion of fluids in rivers and canals; but he committed a great paralogism in supposing the velocity of the water proportional to the depth of the orifice below the surface of the vessel.

  • The self is always subject in consciousness and never can become an object of knowledge (" Paralogism of Pure Reason ").

  • A "paradox" has been compared with a "paralogism" (7rapa, X6 yos, reason), as that which is contrary to opinion only and not contrary to reason, but it is frequently used in the sense of that which is really absurd or untrue.

  • This is a mere paralogism; we can never infer either absolute or infinite from relative or finite.

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