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1821 Feb. 20
Fallacies
Preface or Introduction
§ Vulgar Errors
2
As to Sir Thomas, thencefore Doctor Browne, Physician
to Charles the first+ the field of his researches in
+ Search whether so
that work was principally if not exclusively confined to
the physical department: a field which afforded at in
that time those day[s] afforded much more of that sort of game,
than any the most intelligent and expert hunter
of that time could have been competent to scent start out.
In that part of the field of thought and action, there
it could only is neither is nor ever could be to more
than a small and casual extent that this coincidence
above noted could have place. Of the politician, if he
be a party man, to produce deception is the constant among the corruption</unclear>
and abuses indispensable occupation in the case part of the medical practitioner
while neither on account of the patient nor on his
own account does the demand for it present itself
to any regular or considerable extent. At any rate In particular In the catalogue
given by Sir Thomas Browne of these matters which in
his view of them came as ever at this time in perhaps every mans view they would come under the denomination of
errors, there would not perhaps be found a single one
to which the word fallacy as here employed would be
found applicable.
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