(16) Why should begging the question and irrelevant conclusion be classed as fallacies of the “forgotten issue?”
(17) From the standpoint of both form and meaning test the validity of the following:
(1) “Virtue is the child of knowledge and vice of ignorance; therefore education, periodical literature, traveling, ventilation, drainage and the arts of life, when fully carried out, serve to make a population moral and happy.” Hibben.
(2) “The civil power has the right of ecclesiastical jurisdiction and administration, therefore parliament may impose articles of faith on the church or suppress dioceses.” Hibben.
(3) “Seeing that abundance of work is a sure sign of industrial prosperity, it follows that fire and hurricane benefit industry, because they undoubtedly create work.” St. Andrews—1895.
(4) “Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good action; therefore, extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.” Bacon.
(5) “And let a man beware how he keepeth company with choleric and quarrelsome persons; for they will engage him into their own quarrels.” Bacon.
(6) “He that resteth upon gains certain, shall hardly grow to great riches; and he that puts all upon adventures, doth oftentimes break and come to poverty. It is good, therefore, to guard adventures with certainties that they may uphold losses.” Bacon.