This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...to prevent. Or again: Interference with another man's business is illegal; Underselling interferes with another man's business; Therefore underselling is illegal. Here the question turns upon the kind of interference, and it is obvious that underselling is not the kind of interference referred to in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1883 edition. Excerpt: ...to prevent. Or again: Interference with another man's business is illegal; Underselling interferes with another man's business; Therefore underselling is illegal. Here the question turns upon the kind of interference, and it is obvious that underselling is not the kind of interference referred to in the major premise. X / 3. The Fallacy of Amphibology. The Fallacy of Amphibology consists in an ambiguous grammatical structure of a sentence, which produces misconception. A celebrated instance occurs in the prophecy of the spirit in Shakspeare's Henry VI.: " The Duke yet lives that Henry shall depose," which leaves it wholly doubtful whether the Duke shall depose Henry, or Henry the Duke. This prophecy is doubtless an imitation of those which the ancient oracle of Delphi is reported to have uttered; and it seems that this fallacy was a great resource to the oracles who were uot confident in their own powers of foresight. The Latin language gives great scope to misconstructions, because it does not require any fixed order for the words of a sentence, and when there are two accusative cases with an infinitive verb, it may be difficult to tell except from the context which comes in regard to sense before the verb. The double meaning which may be given to " twice two and three" arises from amphibology; it may be 7 or 10, according as we add the 3 after or before multiplying. In the careless construction of sentences it is often impossible to tell to what part any adverb or qualifying clause refers. Thus, if a person says "I accomplished my business and returned the day after," it may be that the business was accomplished on the day after as well as the return; but it may equally have been finishad on the previous day. Any ambiguity of this kind...
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