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22 May 1811 May 22 Analysis Rudiments
Fallacies Rudiments Not to be copied
Ch. Authority
Authority
Sources of authority
1. Countrymen in former times
2. R in former times
3. Scientific persons each in
4. Persons in power
5. Persons in affluence
6. Persons in dignity
7. Numbers of persons yielding
circumstances by which
(red)
(increased
by
number)
cath.
1. What of of information example of authority is
2. Difference as to place or
3. Relation probity what of attention
4. Correctness of the report
1. present in place & time
2. distant in law
3. distant in place
4. distant in place and time
I. Subject
II III Source
III II T
Persons all q to whom addressed
Authority Chemistry ?? Answers — Nothing now in morals, . Considitur , now in
the way of and
inconsistent
which
when others regard
with comp on being
expert in the management
of it.
Subjects of authority — 1. Matters of Facts. 2. Matters of Opinions
Conditions necessary to c or form of authority a title is regard
Authority not trustworthy except in so far as free.
Causes by which it is rendered unfree — 1. Fears of political punishment. 2.
of religions: 3. of both together
If a person in whose instance any such persuasion has place
as that there is (punishable) guilt in believing or not believing, the
authority is nothing worth
Authority is one of the mediums the medium through which the influence
of the understanding is exercised in understanding
the relation to the proposition assented to on the ground of
authority a propor the probabilizing evidence is of the nature
of circumstantial in contradistinction to direct
evidence
Title to evidence depends, upon in the instance of each
supposed intermediate principal witness such depends on
1. an intelligence appropriate intellectual aptitude, in respect of correctness and compleatness
of conception, retention, and enuntiation: 2. in probity —
the branch of probity in question — i.e. veracity.
So far as mere fact is concerns mere matter of fact, (no special sources
of right judgment being in question) a question respecting the
persuasive value of authority consider with do respecting
the probative force of evidence at large.
In so far as concerns opinion it coincides with do respecting
scientific evidence at large.
Sources of persuasion — 1. intellectually influencing
2. votitionally influencing 1. by fear
2. by hope
3. by both
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