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sound

sound 1 a : free from injury or disease : exhibiting normal health b : free from flaw, defect, or decay [a design] 2 a : free from error, fallacy, or misapprehension [based on judicial reasoning]...

disabuse

To set free from mistakes to undeceive to disengage from fallacy or deception to set right often used with of as to disabuse one of his illusions

Paralogism

A reasoning which is false in point of form that is which is contrary to logical rules or formulaelig a formal fallacy or pseudo syllogism in which the conclusion does not follow from the premises

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Semilogical

Half logical partly logical said of fallacies

Converse

proposition 'X is Y,' converted, becomes 'Y is X.' 'By far the most fertile source of purely syllogistic fallacies is the tendency of the mind to convert universal affirmatives without limitation.'-Bain's Logic, Deduction, p. 114.

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