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Fallacy vs Paralogism - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between fallacy and paralogism

is that fallacy is deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception while paralogism is a fallacious argument or illogical conclusion, especially one committed by mistake, or believed by the speaker to be logical.

fallacy

English

(wikipedia fallacy)

Noun

(fallacies)
  • Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
  • (logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not. A specious argument.

    • Derived terms

    * logical fallacy * formal fallacy * informal fallacy

    Related terms

    * fail * fallacious * fallibilist * fallibilism * fallibility * fallible

    See also

    * sophism *

    External links

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    paralogism

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    • See also

    *syllogism English words suffixed with -ism