2 Aug 1814

Logic

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Ch. III Operations

Persuasion, supposed recollection, supposed perception - all fallible: actual sensation or feeling the only subject of infallible persuasion: the supposed cause of it not in the case of any of the senses.

Discourse, nothing but a persuasion:- practical inference moderation: i.e. habitually declared recognition of the above truth.

Fallibility of human persuasion - more or less probable falsity of all declarations, by which the existence of a persuasion to any effect is asserted - falsity, whether accompanied or not with self-consciousness in the former of which cases it is termed mendacity - these are among the truths[?] which, whether it be for the exclusion of obstinate error, or for the exclusion of arrogance, overbearingness, obstinacy, and violence, ought never to be out of mind.