date

1809 Aug. 1 + 2 Fallacies B. II 1
1809 Aug. 1 + 2

Fallacies B. II 1 Generalia

Ch Generalia

. 1. Classification

' 2 Fallacies classed and denominated

If undertaken to comprize under this enquiry /comprehend within the limits of this essay/ all the arguments or instruments of persuasion to which the appellative of fallacies might be found applicvable would be to grasp at too wide a field. A choice being to be made the best choice that can be made will be acknowledged to be, the ch[...?]ng such as /those which/ in the scale of importance, meaning practical importance, appear to occupy the highest place. Political fallacies is a term /an appellative/ under which by far the most amount in this time[?] will be found comprizable.

Fallacies of the ins; fallacies of the outs; and Either side (a) fallacies - under one or other of these terms /specific appellatives/ be found familiar to a degree of triviality they will not be the less intelligible If to these concise appellatives it be /there be any reader to whom it will/ more agreeable to substitute for his own use long-winded ones, he has the author's free leave for it.

Of this division it were to much to undertake to present the component members as being in so perfect a degree distinct and opposite as to render the division capable of abiding that logical test of a good division good in the sense of the logicians which according to the laws laid down by logician every division to entitle itself to the appellative of a good one, ought /must/ to be able to abide. It were rather too much to undertake for, that the fallacies ranked in the class of fallacies of the inns thence[?] shall on no occasion be found applicable to the purposes of the outs: that those[?] [...?] [...?] fallacies of the outs shall in no case be found applicable to the purposes of the inns or that the sides /either side/ fallacies shall at the same time be applicable with exactly equal advantage to the purposes of the ins and to the purposes of the outs, and at the same not applicable to any other than party purposes, on the one side or the other, as above.
Similar Items
  • Title: [7 Aug. 1811 3 Fallacies Ch. Classification]
    Description: 7 Aug. 1811 3

    Fallacies Ch. Classification

    3

    The import of the word Ins being given, the import of the Outs is also given.

    Ins, public men actually in power: Outs, public men not actually in power, but toiling and endeavouring to be so. These are the short definitions, and these for the purpose of the moment at least, may suffice

    The import of the [...?] Fallacies of the Ins, and that of the [...?] Fallacies of the Outs being given, the import of the term Eitherside Fallacies is also given.

    Eitherside Fallacies is a term employed to give /convey/ a general intimation of such instruments of deception as upon the face of them are /appear/ equally adapted to the purposes of the ins and to those of the Outs. Upon a nearer inspection /the side of the Outs us that on/ they will be found to be employed with most energy and advantage.

    /Of the term/ Anarchical Fallacies /is a term/ the import of which will present itself to view as not standing much in need of explanation.

    Under /To/ this common head may be classed /referred/ divers ways if not of arguing of speaking, the truth and propriety of which being admitted it would follow that government is a bad thing /institution/, and one that if at all, ought not by any body, for any length of time to be submitted to and endured.
  • Title: [13 July 1810 + ' . 6 10 Fallacies]
    Description: 13 July 1810 + '

    . 6 10

    Fallacies 1 Generalia

    Ch. 1. Generalia

    1

    . 6. III Eitherside fallacies

    '. | | Eitherside fallacies - their general nature.

    Eitherside Fallacies is a denomination that may serve to characterize /for the designation of/ all such fallacies as are alike suitable /suitable/ to both positions. viz. that of the Ins, and that of the Outs: being applicable at pleasure either to the /in defence/ of some abuse or imperfection of the existing system of laws, government and administration or or in some instances /in the case of some of them/ to the defence of individual misconduct and /or/ transgression on the part of administration - on the part of the Ins.

    Being of the plainest nature it will readily enough be conceived of them in the way of anticipation, and upon examination it will in relation to them be evident, that they possess, all of them without exception, and in the purest form and most perfect degree the attribute of irrelevancy: in which respect they agree or hath been /will be/ seen perfectly with the fallacies of the Ins, and less perfectly with those of the Outs.
  • Title: [21[?] June 1810 + ' . 5 8 1]
    Description: 21[?] June 1810 + '

    . 5 8

    1 Generalia

    Ch. 1. Generalia

    1

    5. II of the Outs

    Fallacies - useful to the Outs are all that serve to defend[?] [...?] impede or discredit good measures proposed by the Ins

    ' 5 Fallacies of the Outs - their general nature.

    If, in speaking of the Outs regard be had to the persons thus described, in the fallacies in which the Ins find the means of defence for /for such/ /for whatever/ abuses and other imperfections, whatsoever they be, in which they behold sources of profit to themselves /which in defence of their more [...?]tendant interests they find an interest in setting to work/ whatsoever fallacies there be /may be to be found/ /in the vice of which/ in which /the dissemination of which they have an /a sinister/ interest, in the same fallacies have the Outs also the like interest: the difference between possession and expectancy being /constituting/ the only difference. (a)

    But, if regard be had to /Look at/ /Turn to/ the /this/ /circumstance of/ position in which they stand, /act,/ the fallacies which we belong to the position of the Ins, will be seen to have no application to the position of the Outs. The position of the Outs will at the same time be seen to have a set of fallacies peculiar to itself

    Fallacies peculiar to the position of the Outs, are such the tendency of which is to promote the discussion of the Ins: to promote it viz. in the only way in which it is in the power of arguments proper or imporper /relevant or irrelevant/ to promote any such event, viz. by lowering them /these measures, and thence the authors and promoter of these measures/ in the estimation of those to whom it belongs to judge, and whose judgement presents a prospect of being contributory to such event.

    (a) Note to say that [...?]utrates are here held[?] out of the account.