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Title: [[104-unnumbered] 17 July 1810 10 1]

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17 July 1810 10 1

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Fallacies 3 Ch. | | Authority worshippers

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2. Lawyers where trustworthy

Many and many are the cases in which while the rule of action continues in this high shape, an /the/ Astrologer in the next street, if he were permitted to give opinions, by looking[?][ at him[?] would give you as good and well-founded a guess, as the /any/ Gentleman in the /a/ robe /valet[?]/. The learned gentlemans /lawyers/ guess[?] will cost you from a couple to twice or thrice or ten times as many guineas: the astrologer you may hav if you have is at all, for half a crown. But /Unfortunately/ the lawyers have put down the astrologers accusing them of defrauding men /selling /dealing in/ deception/ without licence, and as a sort of smaugglers who ought not to be suffered to undersell and ell[...?] /supplant/ the fair traders

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Title: [18 July 1810 1810 July 18 A + + ' 1 44 48]

Description: 18 July 1810 1810 July 18 A + + ' 1 44 48

Fallacies Ins or Eitherside

Ch | | Authority worshipper

1

. 8 Where fallacies, where not!

1. Relation between this and Ancestor worshippers

/1 It supposes those addressed in [...?] to form their own judgement: good though[?] where there is the cast[?]./

[2. Good in 1. Medium and other branches of science]

3. Good under Unwritten law and[?] the question what is law

[4. Good in legisaltion in so far as appropriate physical science is] [...?] bad in d\T oT\ so far as the opinion of a lawyer is the opinion referred in this character.

5. Good even in legislation so far as the opinion [...?] against the interest of the profession: viz. as a personality, /an argument and [...?]/ and in answer to [...?] authority [...?] against discussion - oppose it to the opposition to Romelly's cap. punishment Bill.

6. Bad in religion: inconsistent in all Anglican mouth.

[7. Reference /[...?]/ is good and is fallacy where[?] given not as authority giving instead of argument, but as to a place where argument may be found at large and in order.]

[Ch. | | Authority-worshippers /quoters/ device.]

 What follows in these two sections having been written a year before the matter of the preceeding sections, see how far it is capable of combining with it

'. 1.[?] / 8/ Exposition - In what cases this argument is fallacious, in what not.

To quote an authority or authorities to refer to the opinion of this or thar person (this or that writer he must have been if any adequately /sufficient/ /adequate/ /sufficiently/ grounded dependence be placed upon the words stated as being /his/ expressive of his opinion /sentiments/ unless being on the occasion a spectre[?] his words have been taken down in short hand)

It is only after certian distinctions made /considerable limitations and exceptions made that/

To refer to the opinion of this or that person as constituting an authority upon the subject as an opinion which independently of any argument contained in it is fit to be taken for a guide /as a ground of decision/ or a practice to which any such dysolistic appellative as fallacy or device can with reason be attributed. According to the nature of the subject-matter and some other circumstance, it constitutes a reasonable /serves or helps to constitute a rational/ ground of decision, or belongs to the list of fallacies.

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Title: [1810 July 13 Fallacies Ch. 1. Authority]

Description: 1810 July 13

Fallacies Ch. 1. Authority worshippers

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. Lawyers interest sinister

In any such /the/ question as what the law ought to be ought them the members of the fraternity of lawyers to be excluded from the benefit of being heard? Nothing would be in itself more unreasonable or more compleatly destitute of all support from any /every/ thing that has been said above. On every question of that class, for the production of specific and relevant arguments, the experience acquired by the study of his service[?] and the exercise of their profession will afford them facilities such as can not in the instance of any other wort of person be with equal reason expected /be looked for/.

But which /what/ ever be the side which on the occasion in question it happens to him to advocate the greater the facility he can not possess /has/ for bringing forward whatsoever specific and relevant arguments the nature of the case affords, the stronger will be the reason for regarding his opinion - his mere naked opinion, real or pretended, - as unworthy of all regard /not worth notice/: accompanied by specific arguments, it is superseded by them[?] and rendered of no use: unaccompanied by such arguments, the production of it in lieu of the only proper and satisfactory /legitimate/ arguments, is on his part a virtual confession that on the side which he advocates the nature of the case affords none. /no such arguments are by the nature of the case, afforded./