...requisite that the doctrine should fulfil — to make good its claim to be believed ? UTILITARIANISM The only proof capable of being given that an object...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,...

...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. "Visible, is that people j actually see it. The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it ; and so of the other...

...or lower. Enjoyments range all the way from sensations to the consciousness of rectitude. Mill says: "The only proof capable of being given that an object...a sound is audible is that people hear it, and so on of the other sources of experiences. In like manner, I apprehend the sole evidence it is possible...

...proof that a sound is audible is that people hear it, and so on of the other sources of experiences. In like manner, I apprehend the sole evidence it is...is desirable is that people do actually desire it." People desire pleasure; therefore pleasure is desirable. This is the experimental basis of the theory...

...fact that the end is not desired, it is desirable? Or shall we have to say, with •Г. S. 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;...

...light of interchangeable terms. The following, also from John Stuart Mill, will illustrate this: — visible is that people actually see it. The only 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...

...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,...possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that 1 This example was given me from personal recollection. Not unlike this fallacy, understood as consisting...

...deutlich sehen, wenn wir Mill im Original 1 ) Utilitarismus, Ges. Wk. I S. 165, vgl. S. 131. lesen: „The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible is that people do actually see it, the only proof that a sound is audible is that people hear it In like manner I...

...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;...