1819 Aug. 11

Fallacies Ch | | Logical High fliers

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1. Exposition

 Confer[?] this head with that of Personalities vituperative: section ex cognoninibus: and with d\T oT\ laudative.

Also with Lumping Classifier

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Logical High-fliers

Lumping-classifiers, or Crafty-Generalizer's device, or Discrimination-extinguishers or corruption-screener's or Corruption-cloakers Device or Distinction-confounders device

Nomenclature, in so far as the name is any thing more than [...?] is called a proper name - the object named /any thing more than/ an individual name, is classification: classification is has been shewn elsewhere\T (+)T\, is among the instruments of government /if by government is government./ applied to the individual object, a generic name attached proformed[?] by competent authority, attaches to the individual object or groupe of objects whatsoever properties stand already attached to that name: if the individual be a person if the class be a class of persons it attaches to all individuals belonging to that class whatsoever portions of good and evil stand already attached to whatsoever individuals that name is applicable to. To the condition of all persons /individuals/ to whom by judicial authority /appointment/ the name of felons shall have been attached, the law has attached punishment in certain shapes: to the condition of all individuals, to whom by appropriate appointment, the name of Members of Parliament shall have been attached, the law has attached certain powers: to /power in certain shapes: to the condition of/ all individuals to whom by royal appointment the name of Lords Commissioners of the Treasury shall have been attached, the law has attached certain powers and certain emoluments. /power and emolument /reward/ in certain shapes./

Performed by a legislative or other legally competent hand, classification is imperation in disguise. But for it to be productive

of

of that effect, objects designated by the name in question must already have been taken for subjects of a correspondent act of imposition.