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Edmund Burke: This mode of arguing from your having done any thing in a certain line to the necessity of doing every thing has…

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This mode of arguing from your having done any thing in a certain line to the necessity of doing every thing has political consequences of other moment than those of a logical fallacy.
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Edmund Burke

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Burke critiques a flawed method of political reasoning.

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