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PARALOGISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does paralogism mean? 

PARALOGISM (noun)
  The noun PARALOGISM has 1 sense:

1. an unintentionally invalid argumentplay

  Familiarity information: PARALOGISM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PARALOGISM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An unintentionally invalid argument

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("paralogism" is a kind of...):

fallacy; false belief (a misconception resulting from incorrect reasoning)


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