7 Aug. 1811 + 2

Fallacies Ch. Classification

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Ins special reform it has to popular & in particular to highest constitution.

In the political position of the persons employed occupying among the utterers in the field of politics may be seen a circumstance from which the most important /material/ as well as comprehensive sources /principle/ of distinction and consequent division any be deduced.

Fallacies of the Ins - fallacies of the Outs - and Eitherside fallacies - Anarachical fallacies - in those denominations may be seen so many indiciations of the object at which /objects at which/ the fallacies /respectively/ classed under them respectively are directed, and thence in some measure of their respective natures and characters /and complections/

Under the denomination of Fallacies of the Ins may be comprehended such fallacies /instruments of persuasion and deception/ as are in general are most apt to be applied to the purposes which in the situation there in question /indicated by that familiar appellative/ men are most apt to direct their exertions. What those objects are is a question to which a general answer will naturally present itself to every mind: to give a more particular and correct conception of them is a task the performance of which will for the purposes of this work require /cause[?]/ to be endeavoured at a little further on.