He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side ; if he does not so much as know what they are,... A Book of Golden Thoughts - Página 91de Henry Attwell - 1870 - 288 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| Richard P. McKeon - 1990 - 308 páginas
...forensic success requires to be imitated by all who study any subject in order to arrive at the truth. He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little ofthat. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But he is equally unable... | |
| Wendy Donner - 1991 - 244 páginas
...grounds and the content of their own opinions, but also the opinions on the other side of the question. "He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that" (18:245). If there are not genuine intellectual opponents, then devil's advocates are needed, for without... | |
| John Cunningham Wood - 1991 - 676 páginas
...degenerate into dead formulae; hence they gave a deeper understanding to those who held the right opinions. "He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. "69 It was Mill's deep conviction that new ideas always came from minorities and from individual geniuses,... | |
| Elanor McBean, Eleanor McBean - 1993 - 244 páginas
...knew bat one ride of the question and was like the one of whom John Stuart Mill spoke, when he said: 'HE WHO KNOWS ONLY HIS OWN SIDE OF THE CASE KNOWS LITTLE OF THAT.' "After a careful study of the history of vaccination and toe extensive experience in its use, I am... | |
| Georgia Warnke - 1993 - 200 páginas
...understanding the reasons that support those beliefs but being able to refute the contrary reasoning of others. "He who knows only his own side of the case knows...what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion."4 Despite this analysis, Mill does not conclude that a diversity of contrasting opinions is... | |
| David Wootton - 1996 - 964 páginas
...forensic success, requires to be imitated by all who study any subject in order to arrive at the truth. some are proper, and singular to one only * an universal;...bringeth to mind one thing only, ׀ E unless he contents himself with that, he is either led by authority, or adopts, like the generality... | |
| Lawrence L. LeShan - 1996 - 166 páginas
...strength and validity. They become schools instead of tools with sharp cutting edges. In Mill's words, "He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that." Later he writes, "Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy... | |
| Michael Bromley, Tom O'Malley - 1997 - 422 páginas
...disputed opinion consist in dispelling the appearances which favour some opinion different from it ... He who knows only his own side of the case knows little...are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion . . . Nor is it enough that he should hear the arguments of adversaries from his own teachers, presented... | |
| Robert Hogan, John A. Johnson, Stephen R. Briggs - 1997 - 1013 páginas
...stage theories, nor do I predict that it ever will; nor do I wish it so. For, as Mill (1859) said, "He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that." Stage and type theories will remain a rich and indispensable source of insights into personality structure.... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 648 páginas
...forensic success, requires to be imitated by all who study any subject in order to arrive at the truth. He who knows only his own side of the case, knows...The rational position for him would be suspension of judgement, and unless he contents himself with that, he is either led by authority, or adopts, like... | |
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