...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;...

...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 actually desire it." (Utilitarianism, pp. 52-53). In this case the fallacy lies in the writer's failure...

...that people hear it; and so of the other sources of our experience, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it." There is a very transparent fallacy involved in this analogy. That a thing is visible or audible means...

...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." Here Mill assumes that the meaning of ' desirable ' is analogous to that of ' visible ' and ' audible.'...

...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." The force of this argument rests upon the assumption that the termination -able in " desirable " has...

...hear 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 actually desire it." But' visible' and ' audible ' mean what can be seen and heard, while ' desirable...

...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...

...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...

...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 is that people actually do desire it. ... No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable except that...

..."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 anything 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...