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every wish remains ungratified as long as it is a wish, and that if she were only to stop wishing her wish would instantly be gratified.
But she would repply "I never shall cease to wish until my wish is gratified".
You might think you had encountered one of the inhabitants of Alice's Wonderland; but you would only have a specimen of what all the world is like according to those thinkers.

One remark which I think you must have made during our study of the ethical fallacy is that if the people who fall into it had only considered what the well-known facts are, instead of allowing their minds to be occupied with the verbal formula, that all deliberate action is for the sake of pleasure their difficulty would have evaporated of itself.
This is teo of all logical fallacies, and it explains a circumstance which I

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