...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...

...is to prove that happiness is desirable : " The only proof capable of being given," says Mr Mill, " that an object is visible is, that people actually...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...

...to that end. What ought to be required of this doctrine, to make good its claim to be believed ?" " The only proof capable of being given that an object...the other sources of our experience. In like manner, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything i& desirable is that people do actually desire...

...— to make good its claim to be /believed ? The only proof capable of being given that an obi ject is visible, is that people actually see it ; the only...apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce thnt any thing is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian...

...to that end. What ought to be required of this doctrine, to make good its claim to be believed ?" " The only proof capable of being given that an object...the other sources of our experience. In like manner, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people do actually desire...

...conditions is it requisite that the doctrine should fulfil — to make gtfd 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...

...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...it : and so of the other sources of our experience. _In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that any thing is desirable,...

...„Questious about euds are, in other words, questioiis what things are desirable The sole evidenee it (a possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it." Anwendung einer allgemeinen Regel, auf Gutes und Böses reagire; ihre Widersacher hingegen behaupten,...

...conditions is it requisite ttiat 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 «nd which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself were not, in theory and in practice,...

...their commencement somewhere." Mill, Utilitarianism. (Dissertations and Discussions, pp. 348-349). " The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible is that people actually see it. In like manner the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people...