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Word Meanings - PARALOGISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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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  • REASONING
    1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
  • SOPHISM
    The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist; hence, any fallacy designed to deceive. When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism, or "fallacy". I. Watts. Let us first rid ourselves
  • REASONLESS
    1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
  • REASONABLY
    1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder.
  • REASONIST
    A rationalist. Such persons are now commonly called "reasonists" and "rationalists," to distinguish them from true reasoners and rational inquirers. Waterland.
  • DISCUSSIONAL
    Pertaining to discussion.
  • REASONABLE
    1. Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being. 2. Governed by reason; being under influence of reason; thinking, speaking or acting rationally, or according to the dictates of reason; agreeable to reason;
  • REASONABLENESS
    Quality of being reasonable.
  • ARGUE
    1. To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason. I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will. Milton. 2. To contend in argument; to dispute; to reason; -- followed by with; as,
  • REASON
    Ratio; proportion. Barrow. By reason of, by means of; on account of; because of. "Spain is thin sown of people, partly by reason of the sterility of the soil." Bacon. In reason, In all reason, in justice; with rational ground; in a right view.
  • ARGUER
    One who argues; a reasoner; a disputant.
  • DISCUSSER
    One who discusses; one who sifts or examines. Wood.
  • REASONER
    One who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner.
  • DISCUSSIVE
    A medicine that discusses or disperses morbid humors; a discutient.
  • PARALOGISM
    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.
  • QUIBBLER
    One who quibbles; a caviler; also, a punster.
  • FALLACY
    An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not; a sophism. Syn. -- Deception; deceit; mistake. -- Fallacy, Sophistry. A fallacy is an argument which professes to be decisive,
  • DISCUSS
    To examine or search thoroughly; to exhaust a remedy against, as against a principal debtor before proceeding against the surety. Burrill. Syn. -- To Discuss, Examine, Debate. We speak of examining a subject when we ponder it with care, in order
  • QUIBBLE
    1. A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil. Quibbles have no place in the search after truth. I. Watts. 2. A pun; a low conceit.
  • ENUNCIATE
    1. To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth. The terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel. Coleridge. 2. To make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate
  • DENUNCIATE
    To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
  • THEOSOPHISM
    Belief in theosophy. Murdock.
  • REDARGUE
    To disprove; to refute; toconfute; to reprove; to convict. How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has,
  • UNREASONABLE
    Not reasonable; irrational; immoderate; exorbitant. -- Un*rea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*rea"son*a*bly, adv.
  • UNARGUED
    1. Not argued or debated. 2. Not argued against; undisputed. Milton. 3. Not censured. B. Jonson.
  • TREASONABLE
    Pertaining to treason; consisting of treason; involving the crime of treason, or partaking of its guilt. Most men's heads had been intoxicated with imaginations of plots and treasonable practices. Clarendon. Syn. -- Treacherous; traitorous;
  • DARG; DARGUE
    A day's work; also, a fixed amount of work, whether more or less than that of a day.
  • INDISCUSSED
    Not discussed. Donne.
  • OUTREASON
    To excel or surpass in reasoning; to reason better than. South.
  • MARGUERITE
    The daisy . The name is often applied also to the ox-eye daisy and to the China aster. Longfellow.

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