noun
fallacy; paralogism
A technical term in logic and philosophy, referring to an error in reasoning. Sometimes specifically a paralogism (a fallacy in which one does not realize the error).
その議論には誤謬推理が含まれている。
That argument contains a fallacy.
哲学の授業で誤謬推理について学んだ。
I learned about paralogisms in philosophy class.
Compound of 誤謬 (fallacy, error) and 推理 (reasoning, inference). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the term is used in modern Japanese philosophy and logic.