...which seem to stand in need of proof. Such proof Mill attempted to furnish.15 He argues as follows: " 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 practice, acknowledged...

...which seem to stand in need of proof. Such proof Mill attempted to furnish.15 He argues as follows: " The only proof capable of being given that an object...manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to l produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian...

...to contemplate. The farther one goes, The less one knows." ^Compare JS Mill's Utilitarianism, ch. 4: "The only proof capable of being given that an object...and so of the other sources of our experience." In short, Moh Tih's theory of direct observation, crude though it was, marked the beginning of Chinese...

...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;...

...questkm. The other party to the comparison knows both sides. ") ibid. pag. 19; 23. ll) ibid. pag. 5 1 f, The only proof capable of being given that an object...people hear it: and so of the other sources of our ezperience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possiblc to produce that anything...

...is attempting to prove that the chief good is pleasure. " The only proof," so the argument runs, " capable of being given that an object is visible is...desirable, is that people do actually desire it." Now visible and audible mean what can be seen or heard, and desirable means something worth desiring,...

...sort is it ? l 1. Since the only proof that an object is visible is that people actually see it, and the only proof that a sound is audible is that people hear it, so the sole evidence that a thing is desirable is that people do desire it. 1 Premises when stated...

...others, is the result of "an ambiguity in the word ' desirable.' " " ' The only 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,...

...with the assertion that "question about ends are . . . questions what things are desirable"; adds that "the sole evidence it is possible to produce that...desirable, is that people do actually desire it"; and presently concludes "that there is in reality 8 Principles of Morals and Legislation, Ch. I. nothing...

...social good or happiness would not be at all complete without Mill's proof for utilitarianism. He says : 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...