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7 Feby 1811
Fallacies

Ch.
§.3. Fallacy Table

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Were it really an
object then with the
ruling members that
its own rules should
experience punctual
and universal obedience
they would be consigned
to a determinate set
of words: not left to
be deduced on each
occasion by inference
from the Chaos of the
Journals; or an extract
published by a Clerk

If in that Assembly it were really an object of wills
the ruling members of it that the regulations rules by which
they it professes to govern itself should really experience
a punctual and universal obedience would they not
be consigned to a determinate set of words? Would they
be left on each occasion to be deduced by inference
out of the Chaos of the Journals, or even the competition mass of
extracts made and printed published by the a Clerk?

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No: the object it to
keep up that uncertainty,
under favour
of which power, limited
in shew or in reality
unlimited; viz. by
influence of understanding
or imagination.
Instruments of favour
1. Flowing Robes
2. Mass of artificial hair
3. Mass of sham science
created out of nothing

No: the object is to create out having created out of nothing a to
mass of keep up and preserve mock science which along with the robe
and the mass of artificial hair is to compose
the stock of the instruments of fascination by which
the influence of the understanding will of the preceding Member
over the imagination and thence over the will
of the bulk of the population vulgar herd is to be kept up:
to keep up that convenient uncertainty which
is preferred to certainty, under favour of which
that power, limited in appearance outside shew arbitrary in
real effect, is kept up — that arbitrary and pernicious power to which certainty would put an end.

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Date_1	1811-02-27	Marginal Summary Numbering	8-9
Box	104	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	422	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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