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paralogize

American  
[puh-ral-uh-jahyz] / pəˈræl əˌdʒaɪz /
especially British, paralogise

verb (used without object)

paralogized, paralogizing

  1. to draw conclusions that do not follow logically from a given set of assumptions.

Etymology

Origin of paralogize

First recorded in 1590–1600; from Medieval Latin paralogizāre, from Greek paralogízesthai “to reason falsely,” equivalent to parálog(os) ( para- 1, logos ) + -izesthai -ize

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