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and one reasoning.
This is an opinion widely spread in Germany.
Very few of the German logics of the nineteeth century recognize any such thing as a fallacy.
The opinion is supported by different arguments; and among these, I have not been able to find any that falls into no other blunder than that into which they all fall; but the one which comes nearest to fulfilling this condition is the following:

You may undoubtedly write down something which professes to represent a reasoning, although nobody would admit it; you may speak a jingle of words that may be mistaken for good reasoning when it is really nonsense; perhaps you may find another person or even your own former self reasoning in a way in which you would not yourself reason.
Be that as it may, however,