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simply because some forms in which the same
confusion of thought occurs are not often
to this same objection. I only notice the radical
objection that is common to all forms.

But you will think it high time I told you
what this tangle of ideas of which I have said so
much consists in. First let me state the fallacious
argument which embodies it. The particular argument
which I have chosen to exemplify it leads to a more
extreme conclusion than some of the others. It does
so beacuse it is less illogical than these others. Its
conclusion is that there is no distinction of good and bad
reasoning. Although, thus nakedly exhibited this
conclusion might find few to embrace it, yet it is
substantially what I might almost say that all Germany
believes in today. For example, few XIXth Century treatises
on logic in the German language have a [wont?] to say about
fallacies, why not? Because they hold the law of logic to be,
like a law of nature, inviolable. Or to state the matter