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14 Feby 1813 Church II Topics Ch 6
2 §.1 Abstract
Part 5 Power persuasion

☞ Under the head of arguments make number of Fallacies?

on a doubtful
fact or proposition
the mind is assailed
on both sides by
reasons - which
when cloathed
in words are
termed arguments.
Whensoever Wheresoever <add>As often as</add> a supposed matter of fact, in respect of
its existence, or a proposition a supposed matter of fact in respect of its truth a proposition
becomes the subject of doubt or dispute, the
judgment finds itself solicited as it were from the two opposite
sides, solicited, viz. by considerations which operating
on each side operate in favour of that and in the character of reasons in favour and
which where when <add>upon them</add> as they find their expression in a determinate
assemblage of words are termed arguments.

Except when self command
is suspended by violent
affection & the
attention is at
the command of the
will - AIt many
canbe abstracted
from the any subject
or fixed on it with
pertinacity proportioned
to exertion
Except in so far as self-command is suspended by
affection or passion by <add> present suffering or enjoyment or suffering - by fear or hope or fear, by sympathy or antipathy</add> in a state of extraordinary intensity —
in a word in the ordinary state of the human mind, the
attention of every man is in every man's experience to a considerable degree at
the command of the his will: from any given subject he can at pleasure draw it
off, and by so doing keep the subject as it were out
of his mind: to that same subject at another time, to
any other subject at all times he can apply his attention,
and draw <add>keeping</add> keep the subject as it were fixt in his mind,
fastening keeping at the same time his attention fastened upon it
as it were with a degree of force and particularly the intensity <add>degree of</add> which
in a considerable degree not only dependent upon but and proportioned
to the exertions he makes for that purpose.

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