malreasoning

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mal- +‎ reasoning

Noun[edit]

malreasoning (uncountable)

  1. Faulty reasoning.
    • 1842, Thomas Perronet Thompson, Exercises, Political and Others, volume 6, page 8:
      So gross a malreasoning, never entered into the head of any man with the genius of a lance-corporal.
    • 1937, The Journal of the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, page 41:
      The essence of the objections raised by such individuals is largely of jealous derivation or is predicated upon purely economic malreasoning.