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Fallacies
Ch. Fallacies in self d
§.1. Exposition — General View
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Ch. Arguments ad vericundiam c groups
Ch. 1. Fallacies addressed to mens self-distrust — General view of theory
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Arguments ad
vericundiam
their common character
and objects to
infuse the weakness
of a child that can
not go but in leading
strings.
The fallacies, here classed put brought together under the appellation head
of arguments ad vericundiam, have exhibit this
common character: — they had to their tendency
of them is to infuse into men's mind the a weakness, analogous
to the b weakness of a child, who can
not go but in leading strings.
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Modesty the natural
but frequently not
the real accompaniment
of this strain
of argument.
The opposite the
real accompaniment
in proportion
as mala fides
A man feigns
the weakness, that
others may be made
to feel it.
Modesty and submissiveness should naturally
be the accompaniments of such weakness and therefore of the
sort of language in which and by such weakness is
expressed. In point of fact the opposite are the qualities are
qualities with which it is commonly seen accompanied found commonly in company. its most common accompaniments.
Should it Why? The Answer is because mala fides
is so commonly at the bottom of it. A man feigns
the weakness he does not feel feel, that others may
be made to feel it.
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