 | Horace William Brindley Joseph - 1916 - عدد الصفحات: 632
...trying to prove that the chief good, or one thing desirable, is pleasure. ' The only proof, he says, ' capable .of being given that an object is visible,...manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to pro1 This example was given me from personal recollection. Not unlike this fallacy, understood as consisting... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1917 - عدد الصفحات: 368
...II, p. 5 (Eng. trans.). • Lesions in Logic, p. 175. the chief good. " The only proof," he writes, " capable of being given that an object is visible is...produce that anything is desirable, is that people actually desire it." But' visible' and ' audible ' mean what can be seen and heard, while ' desirable... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1917 - عدد الصفحات: 372
...Utilitarianism. He is trying to prove that pleasure is the chief good. " The only proof," he writes, " capable of being given that an object is visible is...produce that anything is desirable, is that people actually desire it." But' visible' and ' audible ' mean what can be seen and heard, while ' desirable... | |
 | James Welton - 1919 - عدد الصفحات: 314
...Sciences, vol. i., p. 226. 18. "The only proof capable of l>eing given that an object is visible, is thsit people actually see it. The only proof that a sound...desirable, is that people do actually desire it." — Mill, Utilitarianism, pp. 52-3. 1 9. " Scheiner [one of the discoverers of the spots on the sun]... | |
 | John Watson - 1919 - عدد الصفحات: 322
...for happiness, it does not follow that they are right in doing so. To this objection Mill answers : " The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people actually desire it. ... No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable, except that... | |
 | Rupert Clendon Lodge - 1920 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...happen to a single individual. The best known instance is Mill's famous fallacy: — The only proof that an object is visible is that people actually...only proof that a sound is audible is that people actually hear it. And so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, the sole evidence... | |
 | Oswald Fred Boucke - 1920 - عدد الصفحات: 280
...a means to something admitted to be good without proof." 18 If he were correct in believing that " the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything...is desirable is that people do actually desire it " 19 — if this were so, then social science in a very serious sense had lost its mission. The failure... | |
 | Michael Cronin - 1920 - عدد الصفحات: 724
...we believe it to be a desirable end, and the only desirable end. "The only proof," writes Mill,* " capable of being given that an object is visible is that people actually see it. ... In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable... | |
 | Rupert Clendon Lodge - 1920 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...visible is that people actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible is that people actually hear it. And so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, the sole evidence that anything is desirable, is that people actually desire it. People do actually... | |
 | Oswald Fred Boucke - 1921 - عدد الصفحات: 366
...30 Even then if "will is the child of desire," 31 something depends on the kind of desire. Even if "the sole evidence it is possible to produce that...is desirable is that people do actually desire it," 32 yet there are desires of various meaning to society. JS Mill candidly confessed 33 that Hartley's... | |
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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... 
