1819 Aug. 5

Fallacies Arrangement

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2. Lumping classifiers device. The contrivances here consists in the giving to the particular object in question a denomination common to that and to another or others possessed of an opposite or otherwize different quality: lumping thus an object of neutral character with an object of bad /good/ or an object of good /bad/ character: object of goof character: an object of bad character with an object of neutral or good character.

Take for example Election bribery and Election terrorism. The man of fallacy fives them the name of influences That they are modes of exercising influence can not be denied: nor can it be denied that in cases of Election influence may with propriety and utility and propriety be endeavoured to be exercised: namely that influence which leaving the will free and unoperated upon, applies itself only to the understanding /alone/.

(a) For an example of the use of this fallacy See Lord Gostunes[?] Defence of the Whigs p.