 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. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence...  A Manual of Ethics - Page 213by John Stuart Mackenzie - 1897 - 471 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Dewey, James Hayden Tufts - 1908 - 646 pages
...given that an object is visible is that people actually see it. In like manner the sole proof that it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people do actually desire it."1 Extreme Opposition to Happiness Theory. — In striking contrast to this view of the self-evident... | |
 | William James Taylor - 1909 - 342 pages
...composition, falls into figure of speech when he argues: " The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible is that people actually see it....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... | |
 | Benjamin Rand - 1909 - 832 pages
...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 actually see it....proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it ; and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it... | |
 | William James Taylor - 1909 - 344 pages
...composition, falls into figure of speech when he argues: " The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible is that people actually see it....proof that a sound is audible is that people hear it. ... 7 like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possibi to produce that anything is desirable... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1909 - 886 pages
...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;... | |
 | James Johnston Shaw - 1910 - 518 pages
...to prove that happiness is desirable. "The only proof capable of being given," says Mill, "that an object is visible, is that people actually see it....proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it; and so of the other sources of our experience, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce... | |
 | Peter Coffey - 1912 - 376 pages
...which has since become classical in this connexion : " 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 because people hear it : and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend,... | |
 | Horace William Brindley Joseph - 1916 - 632 pages
...proof that a sound is audible, is that people hear it : and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to pro1 This example was given me from personal recollection. Not unlike this fallacy, understood as consisting... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1917 - 372 pages
...prove that pleasure is the chief good. " The only proof," he writes, " capable of being given that an object is visible is that people actually see it....proof that a sound is audible is that people hear it: and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is... | |
 | Roy Wood Sellars - 1917 - 384 pages
...Lessons in Logic, p. 175. the chief good. " The only proof," he writes, " capable of being given that an object is visible is that people actually see it....proof that a sound is audible is that people hear it : and so of the other sources of our experience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it... | |
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