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1819 Aug. 5.
Fallacies
Classification
Arrangement
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1 Fallacies or Arguments ad judicium — Fallacies addressed to the
judgment or judicial faculty, and having alway for their tendency
and frequently for their intended effect, the misleading it.
To this head or class will may perhaps be found be seen to belong the following
fallacies.
1. Question-beggar's device: or say, Eulogistic and Dyslogistic-
appellative brandishers device; or say Laudative and
Vituperative-appellative denomination brandishers device. In this case
under the guise of a single term an entire proposition is
added to it is smuggled in, and being hidden in the belly substance of it
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Take for instance the word party faction. By the word faction
is conveyed the idea of a political party: and attached to and involved in that
idea is the assertion made, the intimation given — that of its being a pernicious party a party of of
bad complexion, and acting in prosecution of bad designs.
It In this then we see an example of a vituperative, condemnatory,
vituperative or say a dyslogistic Epithet. It is moreover
an one and the most efficient exemplification of the sort of fallacy commonly called
in Latin from the logicians of old petitio principio, in English, the begging of the question,
that is, begging of the thing in question — of the matter in dispute:
begging, or rather secret clandestine assumption of the matter in dispute.
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☞ Insert before this an
example of a eulogistic
appellative
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