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paralogics

paralogics noun: the study of paralogic rhetoric; the study of understanding language by successive approximation.

Noun

paralogics

  1. The study of paralogic rhetoric; the study of understanding language by successive approximation.
    • […] obtained by adding the standard modal operators □ (necessity) and ◇ (possibility) to paralogics.2009, Logique et analyse, page 193
    • The great majority of mathematicians and philosophers regard the principle of contradiction as the over-arching principle of logic, and are therefore inclined to regard paralogics (in the improbable case they have heard of them) not just as deviations from orthodoxy but as aberrations.2012, M. Bunge, Epistemology & Methodology III, page 58

Questions about paralogics

What does paralogics mean?
Paralogics means the study of paralogic rhetoric; the study of understanding language by successive approximation.
What part of speech is paralogics?
Paralogics is a noun.

Words near paralogics in the dictionary

  1. paralogic
  2. paralogical
  3. paralogically
  4. paralogician
  5. paralogicians
  6. paralogics
  7. paralogies
  8. paralogise
  9. paralogised
  10. paralogises
  11. paralogising

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