1819 Aug. 15 3 ult

Fallacies Ch | | Logical Highfliers

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1. Exposition

Ungrounded and Undue laudation is therefore the shape which the fallacy here in question most naturally assumes and may accordingly be more frequently seen assuming /observed to assume/. It is in this shape that it applies itself most directly to the mark: ungrounded and undue laudation, bestowed upon bad arrangements.

The opposite shape Undue vituperation the opposite shape is a shape which in prosecution of this same purpose may not be altogether incapable of being assumed: but its application will in this case be indirect /less direct/ and comparatively feeble. In this case the objects against /to/ which the vituperation will be /are/ directed will be the classes of person by whom the mischievous /the mischief of/ /evil attached to/ arrangements in question are brought to view, or remedies for the removal of them proposed: the persons by whom the remedies are proposed, or the remedies proposed or proposable by these or any other persons.