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单词 paralogical
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paralogicaladj.

Brit. /ˌparəˈlɒdʒᵻkl/, U.S. /ˌpɛrəˈlɑdʒək(ə)l/
Forms: 1600s paralogicall, 1700s– paralogical.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Greek παράλογος , -ical suffix.
Etymology: < ancient Greek παράλογος beyond reason (see paralogy n.) + -ical suffix; compare -logical comb. form. Compare post-classical Latin paralogicus fallacious (13th cent. in a British source).
rare before 20th cent.
Characterized by or involving paralogism or false reasoning; illogical or unreasonable.
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical syllogism > logical argument > [adjective] > fallacious
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1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus i, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 101 Whether this..Husbandry..had not its Originall in that Patriarch, is no such Paralogicall doubt.
1756 S. Johnson Life Browne in Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (ed. 2) p. liv Browne..poured in a multitude of exotick words; many, indeed, useful..but many superfluous, as a paralogical for an unreasonable doubt.
1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 853 Physical or paraphysical; logical or paralogical; nay, even metaphysical or parametaphysical; nothing comes amiss to a German romancer.
1944 E. von Damarus in J. S. Kasanin Lang. & Thought in Schizophrenia 110 The law of contradiction is excluded from paralogical thinking and its paragrammatical language.
1950 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 71 95 The paralogical form I says has been kept within the limits of the original stylistic intention.
1961 W. C. Booth Rhetoric of Fiction iii. x. 278 Even characters whose behavior would be intolerable to us in real life can be made sympathetic by means of this paralogical proof that they are human beings like ourselves.
1998 Jrnl. Politics 60 484 The paralogical goal of social science, for Lyotard, is to continue pressing the claims of an alternative interpretation of society.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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