...word 'desirable.'" "'The only proof,' he says, '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. ... In like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable,...

...textbook Ethics (written with James H. Tufts), he rebuts John Stuart Mill's claim in Utilitarianism that "the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people do actually desire it" by asserting that it would be "stupid to assume that what slwuld...

...see it.'7 What Mill had said was: The only proof capable of being given that a thing is visible, is that people actually see it. The only proof that a...is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. Mill's step is a fairly close cousin of the step from <3c) 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. The only proof that a...is possible to produce that anything is desirable is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself...

...reasoning. He appeals to reflective agreement, in this case of desires rather than reasoning dispositions: the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself...

...reasoning. He appeals to reflective agreement, in this case of desires rather than reasoning dispositions: 'the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. If the end which the utilitarian doctrine proposes to itself...

...vergleichbar. Im Originaltext heißt es: „The only /?roo/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" (U IV, 3; vgl. CW X, 234). Birnbacher übersetzt in der Reclam-Ausgabe...

...memorable. A clearer example in Mill: "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; in like manner, I apprehend, the sole evidence it is possible to produce that...

...that, as in the case of Bentham, he based his ethical views on descriptive information. Mill wrote, "the sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do desire it. ... No reason can be given why the general happiness is desirable except...

...remarkable error it contains) : The only proof capable of being given that an object is visible, is that people actually see it. The only proof that a...is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it. Obviously, however, "desirable" and "visible" and "audible" do...