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9 Aug 1811
Fallacies Introd
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Sketch
S and charcoal are they black or white?
Aristotle that by the quote
should be led to believe either that
black is white
For so mighty a book no single hand genius mighty
as it was, would not have sufficed: a constellation
of genius's such as geniuss were in those days had
conspired to give it birth clubbed their wits for the production of it. The word appellation sophist
was the appellation gave name to a class — an entire class of professional
men — a set of schoolmasters, teachers of the
art and science of nonsense be grave gentlemen:
and in these notable arguments consisted it should seem
no small part of their first capital, their implements
of manufacture, if not the whole
By these superlatively wise men, for this and nothing
less is the proposed import of the word sophist
The riddles such as they were were had
already been given, by these superlatively wise men
but without the solutions; what he Aristotle did was
to give add the solutions to the riddles.
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