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C 2
Of Simple Falshoods
in that design it is that he endeavours to takes off from
certain objects to wit the door and the splinter, appearances
which they had exhibited of themselves: (a)
to wit on the part of the door, the appearance of
having had the splinter broken from it; on the part
of the splinter the appearance of having been broken
from the door. (b)
Fucation commonly but an accompaniment to verbal falshood. Fucation is commonly used only as an accompaniment
to some verbal falshood, which it is
intended to corroborate. It is evident however that
it may be employ'd alone. As if in the case just
mentioned the Author alone had employ'd the verbal
falshood and some other person either in
concert with him, or even without concert, merely
in the design to favour him had employ'd the
fucation.
NOTE
(a) I say of themselves, meaning without his any design
on his part, although the consequences of his act.
useless. As language is constituted stands it is scarce possible on
every occasion to steer clear of ambiguity.
(b) Every The story of Zopyrus the Babylonian Persian is well
known. To gain credit with the Babylonians whom he
meant to betray, he cut off his own nose and ears
pretending to have been so served by his master Darius.
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Identifier: | JB/071/082/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71. |
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071 |
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082 |
of simple falshoods |
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001 |
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2 |
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f21 / f22 |
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jeremy bentham |
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