 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
 | Thomas B. Gould - 1903 - 128 sidor
...impartial as between his own happiness and that of others as a disinterested and benevolent spectator. If the end which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself, were not in theory and practice, acknowledged to be an end, nothing could ever convince any person that it is so. No reason... | |
 | John Grier Hibben - 1905 - 472 sidor
...is that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible is that people hear it. ... In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it...is desirable is that people do actually desire it." In this quotation, the relation of the word desirable to desire is not the same as the other two cited,... | |
 | Horace William Brindley Joseph - 1906 - 598 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,...possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that 1 This example was given me from personal recollection. Not unlike this fallacy, understood as consisting... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1906 - 892 sidor
...the fact that the end is not desired, it is desirable? Or shall we have to say, with «JS Mill, that "the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people actually desire it"? In answer it must be said that desired and desirable are different conceptions;... | |
 | William Falconer Boyd - 1906 - 80 sidor
...visible is that people do actually see it, the only proof that a sound is audible is that people hear it In like manner I apprehend the sole evidence it is possible to prodnce that anything is desirable is that people do actually desire it." l ) Das Wort „desirable"... | |
 | William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein - 1908 - 524 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,...is desirable is that people do actually desire it ' (' Utilitarianism,' chap, iv., § 2). In this passage Mill is endeavouring to prove that happiness... | |
 | William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein - 1908 - 520 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,...is desirable is that people do actually desire it ' (' Utilitarianism,' chap, iv., § 2). In this passage Mill is endeavouring to prove that happiness... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1908 - 734 sidor
...is that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it. ... In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it...desirable, is that people do actually desire it.' It is here assumed that the meaning of the word ' desirable ' is analogous to that of ' visible ' and... | |
 | John Dewey, James Hayden Tufts - 1908 - 646 sidor
...given that an object is visible is that people actually see it. In like manner the sole proof that it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people do actually desire it."1 Extreme Opposition to Happiness Theory. — In striking contrast to this view of the self-evident... | |
 | George Hayward Joyce - 1908 - 448 sidor
...that people actually see it. The only proof that a ' sound is audible, is that people hear it. ... In like ' manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible ' to give that anything is desirable, is that people do ' actually desire it." Here the whole force of the... | |
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