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Paralogism
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Paralogism 

an accidental error in logic. Paralogisms are opposed to sophisms, which are deliberate mistakes made in discussions, arguments, or debates.
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He examines the idea that intelligence creates existence, an existence that is nothing in itself; as he does so he examines the reality of the thinking subject in terms of paralogisms and transcendental idealism including transcendental self-consciousness.
Kant's theory of the self by Reference & Research Book News
6) The figure of Empedocles is permeated with the paralogisms of self-consciousness, which Holderlin outlines in a fragment "Urteil und Sein" in 1795: How can I say: I
Foucault's Holderlin by Kistner, Ulrike / Journal of Literary Studies
35) At the same time he reassures us that, unlike other more elaborate romances, Cloria does not depend on and will not elicit the paralogisms or "false conjectures, which in a Romance, is not proper.
Reinventing romance, or the surprising effects of sympathy by Kahn, Victoria / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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