The Philosophy of Rhetoric, Volume 1A. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1801 - English language |
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Page 137
... sophism , are at once cumbersome to the memory , and unnecessary in practice . No per- son , one may venture to pronounce , will ever be made a reasoner , who stands in need of them . In a word , the whole bears the manifest indications ...
... sophism , are at once cumbersome to the memory , and unnecessary in practice . No per- son , one may venture to pronounce , will ever be made a reasoner , who stands in need of them . In a word , the whole bears the manifest indications ...
Page 144
... sophism ; though sometimes these two appel- lations are confounded . Of the latter , one kind is de- nominated petitio principii , which is commonly ren- dered in English a begging of the question , and is de- fined , the proving of a ...
... sophism ; though sometimes these two appel- lations are confounded . Of the latter , one kind is de- nominated petitio principii , which is commonly ren- dered in English a begging of the question , and is de- fined , the proving of a ...
Page 145
... sophism , since it is in fact so essential to the art , that there is always some radical defect in a syllogism , which is not chargeable with this . The truth of what I now affirm , will appear to any one , on the slightest review of ...
... sophism , since it is in fact so essential to the art , that there is always some radical defect in a syllogism , which is not chargeable with this . The truth of what I now affirm , will appear to any one , on the slightest review of ...
Page 399
... sophism , which has " been , or can be employed , will not be sufficient to acquit this system at the tribunal of reason § . " For sophism he should have said sophistry ; this denotes fallacious reasoning , that only a fallacious ...
... sophism , which has " been , or can be employed , will not be sufficient to acquit this system at the tribunal of reason § . " For sophism he should have said sophistry ; this denotes fallacious reasoning , that only a fallacious ...
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