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1819 Aug. 5 Fallacies Classification & N
1 §. Q addressed 1 understanding 2 affection
Be the fallacy what it may, a man an intended deceiver can nit wmploy it with much any prospect of success, except unless in so far as, in the minds which it is designed to act upon on which it is employed, there be already in _ existence a correspondent propensity disposition to be efficiently acted upon with by it. by such this delusion an instrument psychological instruments The causes of a misconduct through misjudgment are sinister interest, interest — together prejudice, authority-begotten prejudice, and indigenous inborn weakness. In every case instance in so far as a fallacy operates, there must be on the part of in the minds on those on which it operates a correspondent or indigenous or original weakness — a propen natural propensity to be deceived by such an instrument = one in which the power of the instrument has its root. [The mind of the deceiver operator — of the operating deceiver himself may be among those in which the delusion has place it may itself be among the seats of the delusion, or it may not. When In so far as it is, there exists in that side no error of judgment — no delusion: among the four distinguishable causes of error, sinister interest is the only one that has place. But in the minds proposed designed to be thus acted upon, there must be a source
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