1819 Aug. 5.

Fallacies 4 Classification or

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1 Fallacies or Arguments ad judicium - Fallacies addressed to the judgement or judicial faculty, and having, always[?] for their tendency and frequently for their intended effect, the misleading it.

To this head or class be found /may perhaps be seen/ to belong the following fallacies.

1. Question-beggers device: or say, Eulogistic and Dyslogistic-appellative brandishers device; or say Laudative and Vituperative appellative /denomination/ brandishers device. In the case under the guise of a single term an entire proposition is added to it is smuggled in, and /being/ ladden in the belly /substances/ of it

Take for instance the word faction. By the word faction is conveyed the idea of a political party: and attached to /and included in/ that idea is the assertion made the intimation given that of its being a pernicious party a party of a bad complexion, and acting in prosecution of bad designs. In this then we see an example of a vituperative, condemnatory, vituperative or say a dyslogistic epithet. We see moreover an /one and the most efficient/ exemplification of the sort of fallacy commonly called in Latin petitio principio /from the the logicians of it[?]/ in English, the begging of the question, that is, begging of the thing in question - of the matter in dispute: begging, or rather secret /clandestine/ assumption of the matter in dispute.

 Insert before this an example of a eulogistic appellative