The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1869 - Great Britain |
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... sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause , and to support paradoxical opinions to the satisfaction of a common auditory , than to establish a doubtful truth by solid and conclusive arguments . When men find that ...
... sophists , that it is far more easy to maintain a wrong cause , and to support paradoxical opinions to the satisfaction of a common auditory , than to establish a doubtful truth by solid and conclusive arguments . When men find that ...
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... sophism , by which we are frequently imposed upon ; it arises from our not distinguishing between what is indeed a necessary condition to our doing or suffering anything in general , and what is the cause of some particular act . If a ...
... sophism , by which we are frequently imposed upon ; it arises from our not distinguishing between what is indeed a necessary condition to our doing or suffering anything in general , and what is the cause of some particular act . If a ...
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... sophism , which makes us take that for a cause which is only a concomitant : this is the sophism of the fly ; who imagined he raised a great dust , because he stood upon the chariot that really raised it . The stomach , the lungs , the ...
... sophism , which makes us take that for a cause which is only a concomitant : this is the sophism of the fly ; who imagined he raised a great dust , because he stood upon the chariot that really raised it . The stomach , the lungs , the ...
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