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1819 Aug. 5.
Fallacies
Arrangement
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When the different various affections and passions — the different
modifications of affection and passion come to be considered, together and
with at the same time with the differences by which, in so far as distinguishable,
they stand mutually distinguished, here again may be seen
a further source of d uncertainty, difficulty, doubt and disagreement.
Of All these inconveniences however the original source
lies on at a level deeper than any to which it is in the power
of any human instrument to penetrate: in the
imperfect structure of the human mind itself, and of that
language or discourse, that instrument of thought as well as concern without which
the mind can no more itself perceive [what passes within itself]
the particulars of its own state that render them perceptible
to other minds, than convey them within the reach of the
perceptive faculty in other minds.
To these several clusters of fallacious arguments — clusters
put together by sub division and subdivision of the whole mass
names respectively deduced from the latin will here be seem to occupy
the first place: deduced from that dead and foreign language
not surely for ostentation, for of the very humblest sort would
the ostentation be, but for prominence for compactness, for impressiveness, and
thence for clearness: in the first place a latin name,
but this in every each instance accompanied and explained by a
name or description belonging given to the language of the countries
to the use service of which it is in the first place and most immediately solicitously particularly:
for a work of a political cast which is not adapted
to the use of at least the great majority of the whole number of the adult inhabitants
is not adapted to the use of those hands alone without whose cooperation it can never be of productive of any useful
effect in practice.
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jeremy bentham |
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arthur wellesley, duke of wellington |
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