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27 June 1810
Fallacies Ins
Ch. 3. Ancestor-worship
§.2. Experience

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The persuasive force of the soph saying old for earlier

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2. Since with reference
even to their own
concerns men of
early times can
not have been so
wiser as do of later
do with reference
to theirs, much
less with reference
to the concerns of
later do: [relevant
matters of fact
being supposed
equally known
at both periods.]
But to the man
of the earlier period
the relevant facts
of the later must
individually have
been all unknown,
and even specifically
many/money: — hence
applied to cases of later times
judgments of earlier
have been pro
judgments
without evidence

2. Even with reference [each] to its their own concerns,
the inhabitants of past of earlier times could not without gross
absurdity be supposed equally in the same degree competent to form just
opinion [concerning the transactions of the their times in which
they lived] as we who live in these times with reference
to the concerns transactions of these our times: not even on the
supposition that their the degree of acquaintance with all the
immediately relevant matters of fact was as in their respecting these concerns of their own
case instance as compleat and correct as ours with reference
to these concerns of ours.

But among of these immediately relevant
matters of facts respecting these concerns of ours there
is not one which taken individually could have presented
itself to their cognizance conceptions: and in every case
there will be an indefinite multitude of such the like
of which could not so much as in species, in the way
of theoretical anticipation, have ever presented themselves
to their conceptions: and yet applied to
our own case times, the opinions of these wise ancestors
of ours must therefore in the case in which their incompetency competency
was at the lowest highest pitch have been just in
a great degree been judgments without evidence: and
it is this sort of judgment without evidence that the
soph recommends as fit to be preferred to judgment
founded grounded in the correctest and compleatest evidence. that can be obtained.

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Date_1	1810-06-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	14
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
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Image	001	Titles	the persuasive force of the sophism consists in saying old for earlier
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