 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
 | Benjamin Rand - 1909 - 832 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,...were not, in theory and in practice, acknowledged to bean end, nothing could ever convince any person that it was so. No reason can be given why the general... | |
 | William James Taylor - 1909 - 342 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...produce that anything is desirable is that people actually desire it." (Utilitarianism, pp. 52-53). In this case the fallacy lies in the writer's failure... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1909 - 886 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;... | |
 | James Johnston Shaw - 1910 - 518 sidor
...proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it; and so of the other sources of our experience, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce...desirable, is that people do actually desire it." There is a very transparent fallacy involved in this analogy. That a thing is visible or audible means... | |
 | James Welton, Alexander James Monahan - 1911 - 544 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." Here Mill assumes that the meaning of ' desirable ' is analogous to that of ' visible ' and ' audible.'... | |
 | Peter Coffey - 1912 - 376 sidor
...that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible is because people hear it : and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner,...desirable, is that people do actually desire it." The force of this argument rests upon the assumption that the termination -able in " desirable " has... | |
 | Horace William Brindley Joseph - 1916 - 626 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 to pro1 This example was given me from personal recollection. Not unlike this fallacy, understood as consisting... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1917 - 380 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,...produce that anything is desirable, is that people actually desire it." But' visible' and ' audible ' mean what can be seen and heard, while ' desirable... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1917 - 372 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,...produce that anything is desirable, is that people actually desire it." But' visible' and ' audible ' mean what can be seen and heard, while ' desirable... | |
 | John Watson - 1919 - 322 sidor
...for happiness, it does not follow that they are right in doing so. To this objection Mill answers : " The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people actually desire it. ... No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that... | |
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