JB/118/424/002

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August 1810

But in the case of false arguments, the falsity
is not such as is in its nature capable of being unrendered
by punishment. You can not are not able – at least
you might not, to punish a man for falling into
error: for who or where or who for such a function shall be found a
Judge?

Against that at some more advanced stage in
the career of intellectual improvement, means may
be found of collecting gathering together those false arguments
which like the bands of antient Greece and
more modern Italy are equally ready to be employed, and
equally fit for use in the service of the bad side of
every question cause, whatsoever be that cause. Against that
by some common and sufficiently prominent and palpable
quality, such as that of irrelevancy it would
at the time in question be found practicable to designate
them with a degree of correctness and distinctness
sufficient for the purpose of punishment.

Still when all these punishable fallacies were
collected and described and the use of them marked out for punishment,
there would remain others, in specie and extent
and number but too well adapted to the purpose of deception
so and which never being susceptible of distinct precise
and determinate description never would consistently with justice or utility
in any shape be marked out for punishment.

Identifier: | JB/118/424/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-09-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	6-9
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	424	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b3 / c3 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	th 1806
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	andre morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public	draft; not included in letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39478
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