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1822 Sept. 4
Fallacies
ad judicium
ad judicium
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Employed alone, such negative practice it is
true can not effect its purpose: it would be neither
more nor less than silence: and to even the most unpracticed
and least discerning eye, silence, if all-comprehensive
is confession. The man who employs this mode of
defence against the strongest of the adversarys arguments
against the arguments which upon him with the most
irresistible force, much as suppose it were against this
or that argument what is of itself unanswerable
and conclusive, must and will do whatsoever is in
his power to de from it turn aside and to keep down turned aside from
it the attention of his judges of those to whom it belongs
ot judge. His resource and object will be to create
and keep up confusion. For In this view he will keep
up as great a cluster as possible with such fallacies
as he can muster: and though singly taken they might
be driven out of the field by the mere sound of their names,
yet when poured out together in a torrent, and worked stirred
about into a whirlpool they may serve to bewilder
howsoever unable to convince and stupefy and render
a the judgment which they can not gain over
and convince.
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