1819 Aug. 15 2 ult

Fallacies Ch | | Logical Highfliers

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1. Exposition

For the purpose of rendering clear the nature and sinister /fallacious/ deceptious/ use of this fallacy /device/, it will not be necessary to descend into any particular exemplification of specific qualities: the qualities expressed by the general adjuncts /terms/ good and bad - terms by which the sort of sensation excited in the breast by which the object is contemplated, namely agreeable and accordingly approbative, or disagreeable and accordingly disapprobative - will suffice.

Of this fallacy, as of all other fallacious /deceptious/ devices, the propensity to use of which is attached to the situation of the Ins considered as such - the general object will accordingly be the necessity of mens minds to all such arrangements as being prejudicial /hostile/ to the universal interest are at the same time /notwithstanding/ beneficial /subservient/ /conducive/ to the particular interest of the particular class in question: among those which are beneficial to that particular interest, to such and such alone /only/ as are hostile to the universal interest: for as to those which are beneficial to the particular without being hostile to the universal interest, for the causing these to be regarded as beneficial to the universal interest, neither on this nor in any other shape will there be any need of fallacy.