The Book of Fallacies
- Idioma:
- inglés
- Estado:
- Obra completa
- Autoría:
- Escrita por el autor
- Estado del texto:
- Sin ruido de escaneo detectado (medición automática sobre todo el texto, no revisada a mano)
- Extensión:
- ~110.000 palabras · 534 pasajes
Cita esta obra
- APAJeremy Bentham. (n.d.). The Book of Fallacies. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/jeremy-bentham/the-book-of-fallacies
- MLAJeremy Bentham. The Book of Fallacies. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/es/works/jeremy-bentham/the-book-of-fallacies.
- ChicagoJeremy Bentham. The Book of Fallacies. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/es/works/jeremy-bentham/the-book-of-fallacies.
Referencia de la edición que reproduce SigPhi: SigPhi es su reproducción digital, no el editor. El año de la edición no consta en los metadatos (por eso «n.d.») y el traductor solo aparece cuando consta.
De qué trata
El catálogo que Bentham hizo de los argumentos que se usan para impedir cualquier reforma, ordenados por tipos y con su nombre propio.
Contexto e historia
Publicado en 1824 a partir de sus manuscritos. La idea es sencilla y todavía sirve: cuando alguien quiere frenar un cambio y no puede decir que le perjudica, usa un repertorio de figuras previsibles, y ponerles nombre las desarma. Está el sofisma de la autoridad de los antepasados («la sabiduría de nuestros mayores»), el del miedo al cambio, el de «no es el momento», el de la pendiente resbaladiza, el de la acusación de mala intención a quien propone, y el que él llama «argumento del avestruz». Bentham los clasifica como un naturalista e indica para cada uno cómo responderle. Es un libro útil y divertido, y es el más accesible de los suyos.
Contexto editorial, no una fuente citable: a diferencia de los pasajes de la obra, estos datos no se pueden comprobar contra el corpus.
formed, and in the composition of it some little progress made, when the advertisements brought under the author's notice the posthumous work intituled " Parliamentary LogiCy by the late William Gerard Hamilton," distinguished from so many other Hamiltons by the name of Single-speech Hamilton. Of finding the need of a work such as the present, superseded in any considerable degree by that of the right honourable orator, the author had neither hope nor apprehension : but his surprise was not inconsiderable on finding scarcely in any part of the two works any the smallest degree of coincidence. In respect of practical views and objects, it would not indeed be true to say that between the one and the other there exists not any relation ; for there exists a pretty close one, namely, the relation of contrariety. When, under the title of " Directions to ServantSy' Swift presented to view a collection of such various faults as servants, of different descriptions, had been found or supposed by him liabls to fall into, his object (it need scarce be said), if he had any serious object beyond that of making his readers laugh, was, not that compliance, but that non-compliance, with the directions so humorously delivered, should be the practical result. Taking tliat work of Swift's for his pattern, and what seemed the serious object of it, for his guidance, the author of this work occasionally found in the form of a direction for the framing of a fallacy, what seemed the most convenient vehicle for conveying a conception of its nature : as in some instances, for conveying a conception of the nature of the figure he is occupied in the description of, a mathematician begins with giving an indication of the mode in which it may be framed, or, as the phrase is, generated.…