...it : and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the «nd which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself were not, in theory and in practice,...

...being given that an object is visible is that people actually see it. In like manner the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people do actually desire it." See Stephen, Science of Ethics, p. 42; Spencer, Data of Ethics, pp. 30-32 and p. 46; Lotze, Practical...

...being given that an object is visible is that people actually see it. In like manner the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people do actually desire it." See Stephen, Science of Ethics, p. 42; Spencer, Data of Ethics, pp. 30-32 and p. 46; Lotze, Practical...

...it: and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend , the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people do actually desire it Each person, so far as he believes it to be attainable, desires his own happiness. This being a fact...

...it : and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it " (" Utilitarianism," pp. 52-53). Thus having proved that pleasure is desirable, he goes on to demonstrate...

...hear it: and BO of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it 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 were not, in theory and in practice, acknowledged...

...thjngjjtjeing only desirable as means to that end." What is the proof of this doctrine ? " The sole evidence it 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, except that each person, so far as he...

...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, is that people do actually desire it." It is here assumed that the meaning of the word "desirable" is analogous to that of "visible" and "audible."...

...the 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 do actually desire it.1 If the end which the utilitarian 1 Compare with this the estimate which Mill elsewhere gives of...

...it : and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it." — Mill, Utilitarianism, pp. 52-3. 19. " Scheiner [one of the discoverers of the spots on the sun]...