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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French paralogisme, form Late Latin paralogismus, from Ancient Greek παραλογισμός (paralogismós).
Pronunciation
Noun
paralogism (plural paralogisms)
- A fallacious argument or illogical conclusion, especially one committed by mistake, or believed by the speaker to be logical.
1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, III.ii:Which is a Paralogism not admittible; a fallacy that dwels not in a cloud, and needs not the Sun to scatter it.
Translations
a fallacious argument or illogical conclusion
See also
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French paralogisme.
Noun
paralogism n (plural paralogisme)
- paralogism
Declension