 The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it ; and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence...  John Stuart Mill: A Study of His Philosophy - Sida 183efter Charles Douglas - 1895 - 274 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1861
...that people actually see it The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it : and so of the other sources of our experience In like manner,...is possible to produce that anything is desirable, u that people do actually desire it If the end which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself •were... | |
 | 1864 - 463 sidor
...that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it: and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner,...desirable, is that people do actually desire it." Exactly so. Happiness is a good, and is an ultimate end, which does not admit of proof, in the ordinary... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864
...that people actually see it ; the only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it : and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner,...apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that any thing is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian doctrine... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 96 sidor
...that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it: and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible i!• . to produce that anything is desirable, is that people I do actually desire it. If the end which... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865
...given that an object is visible is that people actually see it. In like manner, the sole evidence which it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people do actually desire it Each person does desire his own happiness so far as he deems it attainable. " The general happiness,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1871 - 96 sidor
...that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it : and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the -sole evidence it is" possible -, tp_produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the... | |
 | 1871
...intellect in its favour," as their author modestly describes them. " The sole evidence," says Mr. Mill, " it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people do actually desire it : " and he has no trouble in proving that all men desire happiness as he defines happiness as the sum... | |
 | 1872
...that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible is, that people hear it ; and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner,...anything is desirable is, that people do actually desire it."1 There is a very transparent fallacy involved in this analogy. That a thing is visible or audible... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874
...that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it : and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner,...is desirable, is that people do actually desire it No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that each person, so far as he... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - 1874 - 240 sidor
...is audible is that people hear it ; and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything...If the end which the Utilitarian doctrine proposes were not, in theory and in practice, acknowledged to be an end, nothing could ever convince a person... | |
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