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29 June 1811 3 Note continued Fallacies
29 June 1811 3 Note continued

Fallacies 1 Generalia

Ch | | Causes of these fallacies

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2. [...?] [...?] [...?]

As public so private this is not personal

much[?] as [...?] of compulsion yield[?] to personal

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6 In the operation of some motive or motives may be seen the proximate cause of every human action that has place: including, in so far as it is the result of reflection, every instance inaction or forbearance. An action without a motives would be an effect without a cause.

7 Of the word interests when taken in its most extensive sense, the signification being coextensive with that of the word motive, so again in action that is not the result of interest - of interest in some shape or other, would be an effect without a cause.

8. When on any occasion in respect of any action that is ascribed to a man his conduct is termed disinterested, if in so far as in what is thus said there be any thing of truth, all that can be meant by[?] it is that it is the result of some motive or motives of the class of social of that of some social, or if of that of dissocial, of dissocial springing out of some mass[?] of the social or some-social class - in contradistinction to motives belong the self-regarding class of motives.
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