 | William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 520
...opinions are correct ' (Jevons). As a further instance, we may take the following argument of JS Mill: ' The only proof capable of being given that an object...is desirable is that people do actually desire it ' (' Utilitarianism,' chap, iv., § 2). In this passage Mill is endeavouring to prove that happiness... | |
 | George Hayward Joyce - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...already been made in § 6. In the same passage from which our previous citation was taken, he says, " 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 give that anything is desirable,... | |
 | Jacob Gould Schurman, James Edwin Creighton, Frank Thilly, Gustavus Watts Cunningham - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 734
...in the word ' desirable.' " " ' The only 1 Op. Ht., pp. 57, 58. » Ibid., p. 61. proof,' he says, ' capable of being given that an object is visible,...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,... | |
 | John Dewey, James Hayden Tufts - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 646
...given that an object is visible is that people actually see it. In like manner the sole proof that it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people do actually desire it."1 Extreme Opposition to Happiness Theory. — In striking contrast to this view of the self-evident... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 832
...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... | |
 | William James Taylor - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 342
...the book quoted from in illustration of composition, falls into figure of speech when he argues: " The only proof capable of being given that an object...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... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 886
...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 - عدد الصفحات: 518
...course, is to prove that happiness is desirable. "The only proof capable of being given," says Mill, "that an object is visible, is that people actually...it; and so of the other sources of our experience, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people... | |
 | James Welton, Alexander James Monahan - 1911 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...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...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,... | |
 | Peter Coffey - 1912 - عدد الصفحات: 376
...fallacy in a passage in his Utilitarianism,1 which has since become classical in this connexion : " The only proof capable of being given that an object...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, I apprehend,... | |
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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... 
