1809 Aug. 1 + 2

Fallacies B. II 1 Generalia

Ch Generalia

. 1. Classification

' 2 Fallacies classed and denominated

If undertaken to comprize under this enquiry /comprehend within the limits of this essay/ all the arguments or instruments of persuasion to which the appellative of fallacies might be found applicvable would be to grasp at too wide a field. A choice being to be made the best choice that can be made will be acknowledged to be, the ch[...?]ng such as /those which/ in the scale of importance, meaning practical importance, appear to occupy the highest place. Political fallacies is a term /an appellative/ under which by far the most amount in this time[?] will be found comprizable.

Fallacies of the ins; fallacies of the outs; and Either side (a) fallacies - under one or other of these terms /specific appellatives/ be found familiar to a degree of triviality they will not be the less intelligible If to these concise appellatives it be /there be any reader to whom it will/ more agreeable to substitute for his own use long-winded ones, he has the author's free leave for it.

Of this division it were to much to undertake to present the component members as being in so perfect a degree distinct and opposite as to render the division capable of abiding that logical test of a good division good in the sense of the logicians which according to the laws laid down by logician every division to entitle itself to the appellative of a good one, ought /must/ to be able to abide. It were rather too much to undertake for, that the fallacies ranked in the class of fallacies of the inns thence[?] shall on no occasion be found applicable to the purposes of the outs: that those[?] [...?] [...?] fallacies of the outs shall in no case be found applicable to the purposes of the inns or that the sides /either side/ fallacies shall at the same time be applicable with exactly equal advantage to the purposes of the ins and to the purposes of the outs, and at the same not applicable to any other than party purposes, on the one side or the other, as above.