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.
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