 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...  Fraser's Magazine - Page 5301861Full view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 120 pages
...good its claim to be believed? The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it. The only proof that a...is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 406 pages
...good its claim to be believed ? The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it ; the only proof that...apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that any thing is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian doctrine... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1864 - 108 pages
...good its claim to be believed ? The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it. The only proof that a...manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible i!• . to produce that anything is desirable, is that people I do actually desire it. If the end which... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 502 pages
...it. The writer says (p. 51) — " 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." In these propositions we note that visible and audible mean, that can or may be, not should be, or... | |
 | Charles Tennant - 1864 - 486 pages
...should be, or ought to be, seen and heard. Mr. Mill, however, writes on by what he seems to deem ana" In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce, that anything is desirable is, that people do actually desire it." Does the word ' desirable,' then, here mean of utility, and... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1867 - 132 pages
...good its claim to be believed ? The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it. The only proof that a...is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself... | |
 | John Grote - 1870 - 396 pages
...by Prof. Grote. He says (p. 51) ' 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. In like manner the sole evidence it is possible to produce that any thing is desirable is that people... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1871 - 136 pages
...good its claim to be believed? The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it. The only proof that a...manner, I apprehend, the -sole evidence it is" possible -, tp_produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the... | |
 | 1872 - 832 pages
...desirable : " The only proof capable of being given," says Mr Mill, " that an object is visible is, that people actually see it. The only proof that a...is possible to produce that anything is desirable is, that people do actually desire it."1 There is a very transparent fallacy involved in this analogy.... | |
 | John Fiske - 1874 - 1188 pages
...in ch. 4 of his Utilitarianism. "The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it. The only proof that a...is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable,... | |
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