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27 June 1810
Fallacies Ch. 2. Ancestor worship
§.2. Experience

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Add in a Note. Savages and Barbarians of the present
period exhibit to us our ancestors in anterior periods.

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Then, adding
do ut extra the
older man of
the later period
will be wiser than
he of the earlier
of the same age

As little will he hesitate in pronouncing the man of
Ao 1800 to be superior in wisdom to the man
of 1500.

Why? — because while to what they such of the
materials and sources of wisdom (viz. facts) as have
respectively come under the cognizance of their own senses they
are exactly upon the a par: while in respect of such
of those materials and sources of wisdom as are derived
from the reports of others, the latest liver of the two
has the possesses an indisputable advantage.

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This supposes
communication
between period and
period: — but so
does the fallacy

This advantage depends it is seen upon the
existence of a line of conv communication
as between in the shape of written [documentary discourse
evidence] or at least of oral discourse as between age
and age. But such is the supposition upon which
the fallacy in question is grounded: for whatsoever more wise
or less wise be the character to be ascribed to them, the opinions
of our ancestors forerunners are by the supposition argument supposed
to be accessible to us known or at least cognizible to us.

Identifier: | JB/104/155/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1810-06-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	10-11
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	155	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	34126
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