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6 Aug. 1811 4 Fallacies Generalia
6 Aug. 1811 4

Fallacies Generalia

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In the case of the fabricator, a correspondent intention - an intention to which the same attribute evil may with propriety be applied, is implied where that same attribute is applied to the subject of consciousness.

On the part of the fabricator suppose in the case of the bad shilling the absence of all intention to make in the way of utterance undue profit by the article so fabricted, the mere circumstance of his knowing the mere consciousness /knowledge/ of its badness /the article to be bad/ in the character of a shilling suffices not of itself to warrant the attaching to it /his consciousness/ that reproachful attribute.

In general this evilness of intention this concomitant accompaniment of evil intention will not be wanting to the consciousness. But /: but/ cases may put, nor those by any means unexampled ones, in which the intention has not been evil. /to the intention no such reproachful epithet has justly been attributable/

1. The intention in which it was made, was that of serving for a button: that it bears a certain degree /degree/ of resemblance to many of piece of metal which is in the habit of being passed for a shilling is a circumstance of which he is not unconscious: but that it stand be passed as such either by himself or by any other person, was a circumstance /result/ that had never intered into his intention /in this intention of the man had [...?] found a place/. By accident, it finds its way into hands, by /in/ which, with or without the circumstance of evil consciousness with or without the circumstance of blameable ignorance or attention it has oblivious[?] currency in that character.
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