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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.