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(for, as a matter of convenience, so I shall call it from the outset, since I am going to show that such it is) has quite different turns given to it by different writers, so as to lead apparently to widely different doctrines and they state the argument in different [ph?a?es].
I shall notice some of these later.
But the important thing is to put into a clear light the confusion common to all these variations; and this will best be done by considering the fallacy, as I take the liberty of calling it in advance of its conviction, in that form in which it is freest from all other logical [fan?ets] than that one which is common to all forms of it.
In this purest form, the argument