paralogism

• We shall now offer a few remarks upon it, directed to the object of showing wherein consists the radical fallacy on which it rests, and what are the considerations by which thoughtful men may be most effectually secured against its pernicious influence It has been well said by Professor Saisset, that the fallacy of this system does not lie in any one proposition of the series, but that it is a vicious circle throughout; that the paralogism is not in this or that part of the "Ethics,"--it is everywhere; and that the germ of the whole is contained in the definitions_, which are assumed, but not proved. —  Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
• Surely, to use a simile for the discovery of truth is like studying beauty in the bowl of a spoon 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. —  Logic Deductive and Inductive
• 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? —  Literary and General Lectures and Essays
• But indeed the danger is not so great, if we look a little closer into the question There lurks in the procedure of rational Psychology a paralogism, which is represented in the following syllogism That which cannot be cogitated otherwise than as subject, does not exist otherwise than as subject, and is therefore substance A thinking being, considered merely as such, cannot be cogitated otherwise than as subject Therefore it exists also as such, that is, as substance In the major we speak of a being that can be cogitated generally and in every relation, consequently as it may be given in intuition. —  The Critique of Pure Reason
• We guess (for without some such surmise our suspicion would not be excited in reference to a proof of this character) at the presence of the paralogism, by keeping ever before us a criterion of the possibility of those synthetical propositions which aim at proving more than experience can teach us. —  The Critique of Pure Reason

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