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Nov 15
A fallacy is a miracle. I cannot admit its existence as a violation of logical law. A fallacy is a reasoning from mistaken data. That is 1st from insuffient data or from a fallacious inference or 2nd from using as data something different from what appears to be used. Thus for example if I say for fun:
It either rains or it doesn't rain
It doesn't rain
It rains
This conclusion is not reached directly from the premises [not clear] here but from certain emotional premises relating to fun
Nov 15
The common sense doctrine is to be held as far as this goes, that there are no fallacies.
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Last sentences not included in transcription. "Prove that a given belief really arises from certain data universal to all mankind and it must be admitted. Doubt that (as Hume did) and what has common-sense to say!"
Is the [not clear] word "written"?