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If, however, you are to admit any reasoning to be good, becasue it seems good, you have the same reason to allow that every other reasoning which seems good is be good.
Now every reasoning seems good to mind that uses it.
That is the very ground on which that mind does so reason.
Hence, you must admit that all reasoning is equally good.
Suppose it is with an argument as with man until proved guilty it must be presumed innocent unless I induce you to convict.
I will refer to this fallacy as the defendent argument, and to the writers who adopt it as the defensents.
As I have already

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