...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...produce that anything is desirable, is that people actually desire it." But' visible' and ' audible ' mean what can be seen and heard, while ' desirable...

...Sciences, vol. i., p. 226. 18. "The only proof capable of l>eing given that an object is visible, is thsit 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 it...

...for happiness, it 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...

...proof," writes Mill,* " capable of being given that an object is visible is that people actually see it. ... In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence...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...

...Mill attempted to furnish.15 He argues as follows: " 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...

...one knows." ^Compare JS Mill's Utilitarianism, ch. 4: "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 short, Moh Tih's theory of direct observation, crude...

...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;...

...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 l produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian...

...both sides. ") ibid. pag. 19; 23. ll) ibid. pag. 5 1 f, 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 ezperience. In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is...

...sort is it ? l 1. Since the only proof that an object is visible is that people actually see it, and the only proof that a sound is audible is that people hear it, so the sole evidence that a thing is desirable is that people do desire it. 1 Premises when stated...