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July 1811 B1 Pt 3 Ch.1
Fallacies ad superbiam. Thought-condemners plea

Anti Rational fallacies
Thought condemners

1

Rudiments

Errors to thought superabundance of thought, rarely produced
by deficiency of it.

General rules adopted without adverting to the necessary exceptions

1. Government not to trade or manufacture for itself. Execution manufacturing
for, and combining

2. bad; Exception, for members

§.1. I. Exposition Under it the examples

1. Exposition. Here few words will suffice

§.2. II. Exposition continued — Exposure

2. Considitors — Less observation apt to be involved in the fallacy —
Theories — 1. in plan or design. 2. in argument.

3. Theories in plan or design in what case and to what
degree erroneous — 1. Wrong end. 2. Wrong means.

4. Theories in argument — in what cases and to what degree
apt to be erroneous. 1. Position too extensive, viz. for
want of having the requisite exceptions taken out of it
2. Terms in which it is couched not sufficiently determinate

5. In both cases whatsoever there is of error is more apt to proceed from
want of thinking than from thinking itself.

6 Absurdity of this argument fallacy upon the face of it

7. How to avoid the fallacious expression, and word
the observation (viz. the observation connected with the
fallacy) when it is just.

§. III. Examples of false erroneous theories or theoretical
expression — with the causes of the error expression

3. No man without his own consent. 4. Do as you would be done by — See Aristotle.
2. Right of Self-government

1. Rights of Man. 2. Monopoly bad (Exception p). 3. Government ought not
to trade or manufacture for itself. 4. Liberty of trade in corn, money, &c without regard to exceptions

§. IV. Causes of the prevalence of this fallacy.

1. Different descriptions of men whose interest it is to give
currency to it viz 1. Idlers. 2. Ignoramuses. 3. Dunces Beetles — Stupids

Impressiveness of it proved by the general eagerness to
wipe off the imputation. Causes of this impressiveness
Such error a sort of indication of want of knowledge of
the world — want of experience in business. 3. Poring over
books for want of the sort of merit which gives access to
men — to living sources of information. Want of knowledge
of the world a more ingenious galling charge (according to many
men's actions those most immutably in degree. So according
to Mademoiselle de Montpensier, Ridicule: i.e. that which exposes to contempt.
more affliction than habit:
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Identifier: | JB/104/410/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 104.
Date_1	1811-07	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	410	Info in main headings field	fallacies ad superbiam / thought-condemners plea
Image	001	Titles	exposition under it the examples / causes of the prevalence of this fallacy
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections	peregrine bingham	Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	34381
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