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Title: [7 Aug. 1811 3 Fallacies Ch. Classification]

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Fallacies Ch. Classification

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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.

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Title: [8 Aug. 18 1811 7 Fallacies Ch. Classification]

Description: 8 Aug. 18 1811 7

Fallacies Ch. Classification

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On /After/ looking over on this view the different groupes that lay on the carpet, waiting as it were for names, the following were pitched upon as the set of names that presented themselves as most applicable /being such as might with least objection/, or rather to confess the truth, as least inapplicable - as applicable with least objection, to the /so desirable a/ purpose.

On the occasion of this research, the term argument /[argu]-ments/ ad vericundiam, was a term that presented itself somewhere, and indeed as it seemed to one[?] by more authors /than one author/ of report, as having been applied to the purpose of giving denomination and connection to a class of arguments were so many false whatsoever might be the /their/ number and variety would turn out to be so many fallacies. To the class thus formed and denominated viz. arguments ad vericundiam it was found might be referred I found those which in both senses might be termed the leading ones: articles /instruments of persuasion and deception/ which besides being second to none in the order of importance, might with advantage be placed first /claimed on conclusive grounds the precedence/ /made to stand first/ in the order of delivery and utterance /enuntiation/.

The choice had been made and acted upon for some months, when by accident it was found that of this leading class of arguments under this very name mention had been made by Locke. +

+ Essay. Vol. I. p.

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Title: [11 Aug. 1811 + Fallacies Ch. Classification]

Description: 11 Aug. 1811 +

Fallacies Ch. Classification

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Ch. 2. Classification of Political Fallacies

Ch. | | Political Fallacies classed.

So numerous and multifarious are the instruments of persuasion which in the character of fallacies there will be need to bring to view, that to enable the mind /concpetion/ to obtain any tolerable command over them, it will be necessary to look out for some sources /grounds/ of [...?]ntial and universal and reciprocal relate[?] such as may serve as in the character of common principles of connection by which they may be bound /tied/ together in the mind, some which[?] their points of coincidence /similitude/ /agreement/ or contiguity may be brought to view, and at the same time as in the character of grounds of distinction /marks of discrimination/ by which their points of distinction and contrast/ may be brought to view.