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

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Considitur —
a case in
which the inhabitant
of old earlier time is wiser
than do of present:
viz. a present old
man is wiser than
a present young
one: old having
been an inhabitant
of an earlier
time of which young
was not: the 50
years man having
been collecting
experience 25
years before 25
year old began

And is there then no case in which the inhabitant
of what is called old time may with reason be
considered as superior in wisdom to the inhabitant
of what is called modern or more recent time?

Oh yes: that there is: but it is a reason
from which the fallacy in question will not derive
any assistance.

The individual called old is a person part of
whose existence has been spent passed in the portion of time
called old. The man of fifty years old is a
man who was collecting experience for five and twenty
years during none of which the man of five and
twenty years had on his part any possibility of collecting experiences the
to be materials of wisdom.

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But this applies
only to contemporaries
of differing
ages. In between
century and century
the 50
year old man
of the earlier
century is not
wiser than the do
of the later century
but taking repeated experience
into account wisdom
ut extra, the

This then is good and sufficient reason for
applying to the quondam inhabitant of old times the
attribute in question to this one of the quondam inhabitants
of old time. But as for to the applying the same attribute
to the inhabitants of that time in the lump, the that
reason here has no force reason is no longer applicable. Compare with the twenty
five year old man inhabitant of the one century with do an individual of
of the same age the other century, the superiority will be incontestably on
the side of the inhabitant of not of the older but of the
more modern century. And so in every throughout among individuals of
all ages, commencing at that at which experience
begins to be derived from the reports
of other times.

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Date_1	1810-06-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	12-13
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
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