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give ear to the refutation that only waits to be
heard against the false notion of reasoning that
is the living bacillus in the infection of science,
that they would pay this reputation sufficient attention to see
the point of it, which is plain enough. If men
only would do that, the situation would be saved.
But one must indeed be both sanguine and inex-
perienced to harbour any such hope.

This false notion of reasoning may be [weaved?] into
seven varieties of fallacies. In outward guise, they differ
considerably; nor are they quite identical in
texture. I shall only have time to consider one.
One tangle of ideas is common to all. I select
for examination an argument as little illogical
as any of those weaved from this same tangle;
and of those as nearly logical I take the simplest.

I had intended to present to you a thorough
and formal refutation of the fallacy. But after I
had written it out, although it seemed clear and

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