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Fallacies
Anti-innovational

1 Danger of
of Innovation

2 Argumentum
ab ignorantia a adicantis

3. Too good to be practicable

4 Good in theory
therefore not good
in practice

5. Too soon, too
early - ad tempus

6. Too late - ad
tempus

7. It has not the
support of men of
conviction in that
time - i:e:
of men interested
to oppose every
thing that is good
in proportion as it
is good.

8. no proof of the mischiefs
having already
happened.

All this is
Non amo te
<unclear>Sabidi

Est-ce que nous
ne sommes pas
bien

Can we be better
off than we are?

8. There is no
saying what it may
lead to - It is part
of a bad plan - adopt
this part, it may
lead to the adoption
of the whole. Ex.
Toleration might lead
to the subversion of the
Church - Answer Admit if
this reason, it would
be in any man's
power to damn a
good law by treacherously

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Vulgar Errors

Prosperity of the
Nation depending
on the exertions if
a Minister -
- On the personal
interference of
the King

Such authorities
from History

9. Argumentum a motivis

Argument from the
supposed bad motive
attributed to the proposer
- This is reasoning
in a circle.
The measure is bad
because the motives
are bad - Why do
you conclude the motives
bad? - because
the measure is bad.

10 Argumentum ab
- complaining of word- catching
Answer. By what can
a man answering be
judged of but by his
words? - if you don't
quote his words - then
the cry is unfairness
even misrepresentation or
those were not his words
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We are to punish
ourselves and the country
by rejecting a
good law, becausefor the value of because
somebody who has professed
it in sympathy with bad ones.

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-who are only proposing
it as part of a bad
system.

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11. no instance ofThe mischief
against which the
law is intended
as a remedy has
now happened.

Stable Door never
to be shut till a
steed has been already
stolen

12. No complaint
of the mischief
has ever been made
Answer Complaint
is not made but
under prospect of
redress.

The badness of the
measure is provided
by the corruption
the measure is
of the men.
bad, however
the men who support
it are corrupt. The more
corruption of the
men is provided
by the badness
of the measure.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	107	Main Headings	fallacies
Folio number	028	Info in main headings field	fallacies
Image	001	Titles	fallacies / anti-innovational / vulgar errors
Category	plan	Number of Pages	2
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	35019
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