On Stuffing and Elucidating Artifices

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Creator

DIDIUS

Title

On Stuffing and Elucidating Artifices

Coverage

York

Publisher

Ann Ward

Date

1752

Subject

First mentioned in Laurence Stern’s Tristram Shandy

Description

A surprisingly salient and practical book of philosophy, concerned chiefly with the exposure of frauds and illogical reasoning. The book would put one in mind of Harry Frankfurt’s excellent little volume On Bullshit and his contention that such fallacious discourse is even more dangerous than lying.
One suspects Sterne of enjoying the resonance of its Latin Title, as it must have sounded somewhat louche to those of his readers unacquainted with that language.

Source

De Fartandi et Illustrandi Fallaciis