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6 Aug. 1811 9
Fallacies
Generalia
Ch. Parts bearable

9

18
Opinion embraced
through deference to
authority, has for
its immediate point
prejudice, viz. in
the persona in quam

Imbecillity, the judgment is chargeable with inbecillity, when
being the opinions uttered have for its cause prejudice in authority
in a case which called for examination and self-framed judgments
If the opinion is erroneous, here is temerity, and that temerity a
mark of imbecillity.
In the situation here in question, viz. legislatorship, to act from against relevant arguments prejudice is obtainable in every
man, or from authority except in the cases to a narrow extent in which soever is the absence of self service is not blameable.

Supposing, it in the case of any man and
any opinion, that it is by the force of authority and
that when that it has obtained acceptance in his mind,
what at any rate is known is that for its immediate
period it is his prejudice.

19
On the part of the
persona cujus the
profession of the opinion
may have been sincere
or insincere.
— if insincere, such
utterer was evilly
-conscious
.

In the mind of him whose opinion is the source
of this authority persuasion — upon whose credit upon the ground of the opinion may have been through
whose opinion acceptance, real or supposed it the acceptance has been
given to it through by the supposition (unless in case of accidental misconception)
professed, it may, at the very time of such profession, have been,
or not have been, really entertained.

If, while when thus professed, it was not really entertained,
the utterance of it was on by the supposition
attended with the habitude of the times above spoken of under the name of evil consciousness above spoken of.

20
If so, if in the
interest by which such
utterance was
produced must
have been sinister.

In this case, sinister interest will in some shape or
other have been in that place been the cause of the acceptance
given to it: for without an interest, and that
to which the epithet sinister may without cause of
objection be applied, a man will not have recourse
to insincerity, to deliberate falshood in that or any other
shape.



Identifier: | JB/104/087/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.

Date_1

1811-08-06

Marginal Summary Numbering

18-20

Box

104

Main Headings

fallacies

Folio number

087

Info in main headings field

fallacies

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

d9 / e9

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

j whatman 1808

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

admiral pavel chichagov

Corrections

peregrine bingham

Paper Produced in Year

1808

Notes public

ID Number

34058

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