Why this word is great
PARALOGISM — [Noun] A fallacious argument or illogical conclusion, especially one committed by mistake, or believed by the speaker to be logical. From the Ancient Greek παραλογισμός (paralogismós, "false reasoning"), from παρά (pará, "beyond") + λογισμός (logismós, "reasoning"), it is the shadow cast by earnest thought—the misstep of a mind convinced it walks straight. Unlike "sophism" (a blade honed to deceive) or "fallacy" (an umbrella for all reasoning’s cracks), paralogism is the honest stumble, the sincere wrong turn. It is the mathematician’s misplaced decimal, the lover’s flawed syllogism of affection, or the politician’s earnest but broken chain of cause and effect—proof that even the most rigorous logic can, in trembling hands, become a crooked path.