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4 Aug. 1809 4
Fallacies
Ch. 1. Personalities vitup
§.2. Exposure in globo
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Consequence, were
such circumstantial
evidence considered as
conclusive or considerably
impressive,
by adopting it, the most
worthless and infamous
adversary
would have it in his
power to defeat the
best measure
If arguments of this class, let them even be built
upon the very strongest ground that arguments of this class are
capable of being built upon, were to be regarded as conclusive
— say even as possessing that degree of conclusive
force which is so generally appears to be ascribed attributed to them
by those by whom they are urged, observe the consequence
— or at any rate one consequence — viz. that the very
persons by whom they are urged would be in the power of
the adversaries whom by these instruments weapons they are opposing
placed in their power by the force and virtue of those
very instruments. The supposed wicked author or proposer or advocate of
this supposed wicked measure has but to propose the
opposite of any this or any other wicked measure, in
order to compel these virtuous opposers of the wicked
measure in question to support any and every
other wicked measure, at his choice. a
(a) For example take Cobbet.
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