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παραλογ-ισμός

paralogismos · ὁ

false reasoning, fallacy

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Where it lives

Psalmi Salomonis 2 · 4.2/10k
Esther 2 · 3.62/10k
Ars Poetica 3 · 2.97/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Analytica priora et posteriora 3 · 0.54/10k
Rhetoric 2 · 0.47/10k
Politics 1 · 0.15/10k
Metaphysics 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

παραλογ-ισμός · paralog-ismos — LSJ

false reasoning, fallacy, false inference, fallacies

false reasoning, fallacy, τοὺς π. κατά τινων ποιήσονται Lycurg. 31, cf. Gal. 11.465, etc.; false inference, τοῦ θεάτρου Arist. Po. 1455a13 ; οἱ ἔξω τῆς λέξεως π. material fallacies, opp. οἱ παρὰ τὴν λέξιν ἔλεγχοι, Id. SE 166b21.

2 weakness of reasoning power

weakness of reasoning power, Aristeas 250.

II deception, fraud

deception, fraud, Plb. 1.81.8, PLond. 1.24.26 (ii B. C.), etc.

In the wild

παραλογισμός · paralogismos Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1675)
παραλογισμός · paralogismos Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora AHys.Α (DIORISIS sentence 1677)
παραλογισμοῖς · paralogismois Aristotle, Analytica priora et posteriora APr.Β (DIORISIS sentence 1277)
παραλογισμόν · paralogismon Aristotle, Ars Poetica 16
παραλογισμοῦ · paralogismou Aristotle, Ars Poetica 16
παραλογισμός · paralogismos Aristotle, Ars Poetica 24

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