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1 Aug. 1809 Aug. 1 3 Fallacies Ch
1 Aug. 1809 Aug. 1 3

Fallacies Ch. 1. Generalia

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. 2 Classification

Fallaciesof the ins claim on this occasion the precidence. Why? - Because on that side the demand for fallacies will be seen to be most urgent and the productions actually exhibited by ingenuity operating in this line, the most various.

To both together the prudence is given with relation to Either-side fallacies, because /since/ it is under the head of each that the demand which it may happen to each to have for the assistance of those instruments of persuasion will have required to be brought to view.

Under the head of each of /the two first of/ these classes of fallacies I shall begin with bringing to view the cause and origin of the demand which the combatants on that side of every political question have for the instruments of persuasion thus denominated.

By the nature of that demand will thus be rendered visible a quality /characteristic quality - I mean irrelevancy/ common to the several individual articles which will be seen to come under that class.

This quality, if found to be justly ascribed to them, will of itseld be found sufficient to pass condemnation on these in the lump.

But besides this, under the head of each separate fallacy, besides a few examples, brought to view /adduced/ for the purpose of rendering the conception of it the clearer and more familiar, I shall subjoin /add/ an exposure or refutation of it, serving /having for its object/ to bring to view the mischiefs or absurdiies or both that will be found involved in the use of it
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    On character has been already mentioned as applicable in common to fallacies in general, at any rate to the class of fallacies here in question, viz. irrelevancy: irrelevancy with reference to the subject in hand

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    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.

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