...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...

...difficulties in the way of hedonism Mill does not busy himself: it is enough for him that the case is so. "The only proof capable of being given that an object...is desirable is that people do actually desire it Each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This being a fact...

...somewhat less overwhelming than might have been expected. Mill's proof of hedonism is thus expressed. " The only proof capable of being given that an object...is desirable, is that people do actually desire it " ("Utilitarianism," pp. 52-53). Thus having proved that pleasure is desirable, he goes on to demonstrate...

....should fulfil — to make good its claim to be believed ? The only proof capable of being given thart an object is visible, is that people actually see...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...

...not an intuition,2 but consists in his theory of desire — the doctrine of psychological hedonism. " The only proof capable of being given that an object...that a sound is audible, is that people hear it: and BO of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible...

...claim to be believed ? The only proof capable of being given that jin_object is visible, is that_peQple actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it : *"£- ^ t and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner,J[ jipprehend, the sole evidence...

...are so. The following invalid argument from Mill's Utilitarianism seems to fall under this head. " The only proof " capable of being given that an object...that a sound is " audible, is that people hear it. ... In like manner, I "apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that BOOK VII. " anything...

...conditions is it requisite that the doctrine should fulfil — to make good its claim to be believed ? UTILITARIANISM The only proof capable of being given...other sources of our experience. In like manner, I a^pjehej1d, 4;he sole eiddenca-it-is-peesible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people...

...be illustrated by a passage from Mill. "The only proof," he says, " capable of being given that aa object is visible, is that people actually see it....proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it. ... In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable,...

...far removed from each other." — Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences, vol. i., p. 226. 18. "The only proof capable of being given that an object...desirable, is that people do actually desire it." — Mill, Utilitarianism, pp. 52-3. 19. " Scheiner [one of the discoverers of the spots on the sun]...