It includes the study of arguments and fallacies; and is that part of rhetoric which is closest neighbor to logic.

The Recovery of Classical Rhetoric A half century before Smith unveiled the mysteries of rhetoric, Bacon had in his Advancement of Learning (1605) pointed out the fallacies of the renaissance obsession with style.

Although I trust not to those fallacies, Yet now and then such men prove soothsayers.

Envy, spit thy gall; Plot, work, contrive; create new fallacies; Team from thy womb each minute a black traitor, Whose blood and thoughts have twin conception: Study to act deeds yet unchronicled; Cast native monsters in the moulds of men; Case vicious devils under sancted rochets; Unhasp the wicket, where all perjureds roost, And swarm this ball with treasons.

The individual who would hesitate about advancing his fallacies and mistakes with a single voice, does not scruple to proclaim them on the hill-tops, when he finds other tongues to repeat his errors.

In his Essay, he comforts himself with the belief "that he had enabled every person of common sense to defeat the more important fallacies of the sceptical metaphysicians, even though he should not possess acuteness, or metaphysical knowledge, sufficient to qualify him for a logical refutation of them."

And as to the force of my arguments, that is a secondary consideration with audiences who have given a new scope to the ex pede Herculem principle, and from awkward feet infer awkward fallacies.

Dr. Lightfoot has rendered a great service to criticism by his masterly exposure of the fallacies in the argument which has been drawn from the silence of Eusebius in respect to the use of the Canonical Gospels by the early writers [Endnote 138:1].

There are so many pleasing fallacies connected with her sway over the naturally indolent mind of man, that reason is altogether banished, and superstition's authority knows no bounds.

"That is one of the fallacies of the Romish Church.

But we lost sight of the metaphysical truth, that, though men may fail to convince others by a never so incessant repetition of sonorous nonsense, they nevertheless gradually persuade themselves, and impregnate their own minds and characters with a belief in fallacies that have been uncontradicted only because not worth contradiction.

No man was less likely to be imposed upon by fallacies in argument, or by exaggerated statements of facts.

These are specimens of the often exposed fallacies in which he delights to indulge.

To regard them as the things to which they pertain, or as constituent parts of them, leads to endless fallacies.

To regard them as the things themselves, or as constituent parts of them, leads to endless fallacies.

We will now briefly notice another objection, somewhat akin to the preceding, and based mainly upon the same and similar fallacies.

To regard them as the things to which they pertain, or as constituent parts of them, leads to endless fallacies.

To regard them as the things themselves, or as constituent parts of them, leads to endless fallacies.

But why should he whose life is spent in contemplation, and whose business is only to discover truth, be unable to rectify the fallacies of imagination, or contend successfully against prejudice and passion?

"Up into the watchtower get, and see all things despoiled of fallacies."Donne or Joh. cor.

Slavery, the concentration of land in a few hands, and the theory that all taxation has for its end the enriching of a select few, were the fallacies which, in the last analysis, caused the collapse of the Roman Empire.

HOW THE MIND FALLS INTO ERROR; a brief treatment of fallacies for the general reader, by Henry Bradford Smith.

Rather, does it not illumine and expose the fallacies of logic and the falsities of the syllogism?

To Swift it was easy enough to be a staunch Churchman and at the same time expose the fallacies underlying the faith in the sovereign power; but then Swift was here no party fanatic who would use the "Church in danger" cry for party purposes.

I see both inconsistencies and fallacies in them.