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" 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. "
The Problem of Logic - Page 283
by William Ralph Boyce Gibson, Augusta Klein - 1908 - 500 pages
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 64

1861 - 882 pages
...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, i-> that people actually see it The only proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it : and...
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Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and ..., Volume 3

John Stuart Mill - History - 1864 - 406 pages
...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...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...
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Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 108 pages
...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...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...
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Utilitarianism Explained and Exemplified in Moral and Political Government

Charles Tennant - Utilitarianism - 1864 - 486 pages
...Utilitarianism may cry — ' Yes ;' but he does not calmly choose it. The writer says (p. 51) — " The only proof capable of being given that an object...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...
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The North American Review, Volume 100

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1865 - 666 pages
...ultimate ends do not admit of proof in the ordinary acceptation of the term." The only proof that can be given that an object is visible is that people actually see it. In like manner, the sole evidence which it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that...
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An Examination of the Utilitarian Philosophy

John Grote - Philosophy - 1870 - 396 pages
...his argument here deserves attention though it has not been noticed by Prof. Grote. He says (p. 51) ' The only proof capable of being given that an object...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...
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Utilitarianism

John Stuart Mill - Utilitarianism - 1871 - 136 pages
...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...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...
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Modern Utilitarianism; Or, The Systems of Paley ..., Volume 25; Volume 484

Thomas Rawson Birks - Philosophy - 1874 - 348 pages
...to that end. What ought to be required of this doctrine, to make good its claim to be believed ?" " The only proof capable of being given that an object...the other sources of our experience. In like manner, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything i& desirable is that people do actually desire...
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Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and ..., Volume 3

John Stuart Mill - History - 1874 - 404 pages
...— to make good its claim to be /believed ? The only proof capable of being given that an obi ject is visible, is that people actually see it ; the only...apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce thnt any thing is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian...
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Modern Utilitarianism; Or, The Systems of Paley ..., Volume 25; Volume 484

Thomas Rawson Birks - Philosophy - 1874 - 330 pages
...to that end. What ought to be required of this doctrine, to make good its claim to be believed ?" " The only proof capable of being given that an object...the other sources of our experience. In like manner, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people do actually desire...
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