 There is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting...  liberty - 38. lappuseautors: john stuart mill - 1859Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 lapas
...Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies in assuming its truth for purposes of action, and on no other terms can a creature with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right. ADVANTAGES OF DISCUSSION.... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 232 lapas
...permitting its refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...faculties have any rational assurance of being right. 'X. When we consider either the history of opinion, or the ordinary conduct of human life, to what... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1863 - 236 lapas
...permitting its I refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action ; and on no other terms I* -- can a being with human faculties have any \ rational assurance of being right. . * - When... | |
 | Joseph Parker - 1867 - 374 lapas
...difficulty ; he says, " Complete liberty of contradicting and disapproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...faculties have any rational assurance of being right." This is somewhat firm for a man who has just laid down the doctrine that we " can never be sure that... | |
 | Joseph Parker - 1867 - 374 lapas
...difficulty ; he says, " Complete liberty of contradicting and disapproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...faculties have any rational assurance of being right." This is somewhat firm for a man who has just laid down the doctrine that we " can never be sure that... | |
 | James Fitzjames Stephen - 1873 - 360 lapas
...purpose of not permitting its refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...faculties have any rational assurance of being right.' This reply does not appear to be satisfactory. It is not very easy to disentangle the argument on which... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 608 lapas
...be unless he is infallible. "Complete liberty," he says, "of contradicting our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...faculties have any rational assurance of being right." Mr. Mill's critic tries to parry this argument by saying that a law forbidding people to deny the existence... | |
 | Herbert Junius Hardwicke - 1884 - 308 lapas
...of progress cr improvement complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...faculties have any rational assurance of being right." In the following pages 1 have endeavoured to trace the history of religion from the earliest times... | |
 | Herbert Junius Hardwicke - 1887 - 334 lapas
...not suffer themselves to think comple liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...faculties have any rational assurance of being right." \ We claim the right to think upon any and every subject, and also to express our thoughts before the... | |
 | 1894 - 916 lapas
...permitting its refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very ties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, i <*ua being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right. Wben we consider either... | |
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