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

Fallacies Ins or Eitherside

Ch | | Authority worshipper

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. 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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