...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. ([5.37], 34) That these last two passages have become as well known as they have is due, in no small...

...themselves and each of their differing judgements is equally valid. Or, in John Stewart Mills' words: "The sole evidence it is possible to produce that...is desirable is that people do actually desire it." 6 Spinoza put it even more clearly: In no case do we strive for, wish for, or desire anything because...

...happiness is the only thing desirable. The outline of the argument can be given in Mill's own words: (1) "The sole evidence it is possible to produce that...is desirable is that people do actually desire it." (Paragraph 3) (2) "Each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness."...

...2, and ch. 2, para. 2. Mill suggests an analogy between visibility and desirability and then says, "(T]he sole evidence it is possible to produce that...is desirable is that people do actually desire it" (Utilitarianism, ch. 4, para. 3). I assume he would say, in parallel fashion, that something is properly...

...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.5 We shall not concern ourselves with the question of whether Mill's proof is sound. For our purposes,...

...textbook Ethics (written with James H. Tufts), he rebuts John Stuart Mill's claim in Utilitarianism that "the sole evidence it is possible to produce that...is desirable is that people do actually desire it" by asserting that it would be "stupid to assume that what slwuld be desired can be determined by a...

...clear and that he does not commit the definist fallacy. Turning back to step \A, we find Mill saying: "The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people actually do desire it." Moore himself correctly paraphrases this in one place: ". . . you can only...

...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 that the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people actually...

...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. Mill's step is a fairly close cousin of the step from <3c) to (4c). And, prima facie at least, both...

...vergleichbar. Im Originaltext heißt es: „The only /?roo/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" (U IV, 3; vgl. CW X, 234). Birnbacher übersetzt in der Reclam-Ausgabe sowohl proofwie auch evidence...