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Fallacies Generalia
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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.

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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.

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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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