g. that pleasure is the good,
and that to do injustice is better than to suffer it. For people
then hate him, supposing him to maintain them not for the sake of
argument but because he really thinks them.
10
Of all arguments that reason to a false conclusion the right
solution is to demolish the point on which the fallacy that occurs
depends: for the demolition of any random point is no solution, even
though the point demolished be false. For the argument may contain
many falsehoods, e.g. suppose some one to secure the premisses, 'He
who sits, writes' and 'Socrates is sitting': for from these it follows
that 'Socrates is writing'. Now we may demolish the proposition
'Socrates is sitting', and still be no nearer a solution of the
argument; it may be true that the point claimed is false; but it is
not on that that fallacy of the argument depends: for supposing that
any one should happen to be sitting and not writing, it would be
impossible in such a case to apply the same solution. Accordingly,
it is not this that needs to be demolished, but rather that 'He who
sits, writes': for he who sits does not always write.
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