 | 1861 - 882 páginas
...conditions is it requisite that the doctrine should fulfil — to make good its claim to be believed ? The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, i-> that people actually see it The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it : and... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 páginas
...conditions is it requisite that the doctrine should fulfil — to make good its claim to be believed? The only proof capable of being given that an object...is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself were not, in theory and in practice, acknowledged... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 502 páginas
...— namely, our senses, and our internal consciousness." This he well illustrates thus (p. 51.) :— "The only proof capable of being given that an object...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 - 406 páginas
...conditions is it requisite that the doctrine should fulfil — to make good its claim to be believed ? The only proof capable of being given that an object...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 - 108 páginas
...conditions is it requisite that the doctrine should fulfil—to make good its claim to be believed ? The only proof capable of being given that an object...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... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 486 páginas
...Utilitarianism may cry — ' Yes ;' but he does not calmly choose it. The writer says (p. 51) — " The only proof capable of being given that an object...that a sound is audible is, that people hear it." In these propositions we note that visible and audible mean, that can or may be, not should be, or... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1865 - 666 páginas
...ultimate ends do not admit of proof in the ordinary acceptation of the term." The only proof that can be 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... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 132 páginas
...conditions is it requisite that the doctrine should fulfil — to make good its claim to be believed ? The only proof capable of being given that an object...is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself were not, in theory and in practice, acknowledged... | |
 | John Grote - 1870 - 396 páginas
...his argument here deserves attention though it has not been noticed by Prof. Grote. He says (p. 51) ' The only proof capable of being given that an object...proof that a sound is audible is that people hear it. In like manner the sole evidence it is possible to produce that any thing is desirable is that people... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1871 - 136 páginas
...conditions is it requisite that the doctrine should fulfil — to make good its claim to be believed? The only proof capable of being given that an object...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... | |
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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... 
