JB/047/277/001

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24 Novr 1811
Evidence

§. 2.I. Intellectual

Of the intellectual faculties, in so far as they are in
a state adapted to the purposes of testimonial discourse,
i.e. of to the giving relative correctness and compleatness to the statement
which the occupied in delivering has been a part in the delivery of which they have borne a part, nothing
in particular will be to be said. But by any of those infirmities, to which
they are respectively subject, the any statement which they
have borne a part in the delivery of, is liable
to be rendered in a greater or less degree deceptitiously incorrect
or incompleat: hence the necessity of distinguishing them,
observing the lines of distinction separation by which they are stand distinguished
from each other, and in the character of causes of misreport noting the weaknesses,
of which they are respectively susceptible.

Simple perception attention judgement memory –
under these heads by these terms may be brought
expression these may be stated as to view the sources: by expression
in the vehicle – of discourse at large – and thence of testimonial discourse. As it is As in these those that
being the we are to look for the intellectual causes in which of correctness and compleatness in
the testimony, where it is in a correctly in so far as it is in a correct and
compleat state (so likewise of its incorrectness and or incompleatness in so far as it is in an relatively incorrect
or incompleat state. As to The imagination, in so far as
distinct from memory contributing nothing to correctness, or,
in so far as it is distinct from memory to compleatness,
can not operate so it is that in so far as it upon testimony it can not have scarcely operate
never operates but in the character of a cause of
in any other character than that of a cause of
incorrectness or incompleatness, more particularly and obviously
of incorrectness. Acting under the direction command orders of the will, and directing
taking , the will, its direction its exertions by a particular end – it becomes invention: – keeping directing
them into the path of deceptitious incorrectness and incompleatness taking deception for its end deception, as with and that
being under the impulse of sinister interest deception being pernicious, the
the will, its director, operating under the impulse or attraction of sinister interest –
(that is, as will be seen of any interest or motive acting in that
sinister direction,) it takes for its object and its part in production of mendacity becomes mendacity.

Identifier: | JB/047/277/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1811-11-24	Marginal Summary Numbering	4 or 1 - 5 or 2
Box	047	Main Headings	rationale of judicial evidence
Folio number	277	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1 / d4 / e1 / f63
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	15145
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