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logic in the argument, to say "of course, some allowance must be made for that," without examining precisely what the required modification of the argument is.
If one were to ask one of the defendent's whether, blunders being put aside, one may not deliberately employ an unwise and worthless method of inquiry, he would manifestly be forced to assent to that, - since it is precisely against a method of inquiring into logic that he is arguing.
But still he would say that if your notions of reasoning are wrong you cannot by your reasoning correct them, - or he would utter some such jingle of words that sounds like logic until you examine it.
By such vague wanderings of mind he has tangled his clue and a length breaks it.
His reasoning is so perplexed that it really no longer guides him; and is final opinion is the effect not of that but of the original tendencies of his mind.
The cast of his mind is