...opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity to exchange error for truth, if wrong they loose what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception...impression of truth produced by its collision with error. It is necessary to consider two hypotheses. First, that we can never be sure that the opinion we are...

...false statement may be deemed to make a valuable contribution to public debate, since it brings about "the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error." John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (Oxford: Blackwell, 1947), at 15; see also John Milton, Areopagitica,...

...who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error from truth; if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. 63 What is most striking in...

...therefore be constituted by a free exchange of knowledge whose ostensible goal is public understanding of 'the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error' (Mill 2003 [1869]: 87). The market in psychoanalytic literature sits oddly with the aims of analysis;...

...oppositional viewpoints diminishes the prospects for a public sphere: "If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for...impression of truth produced by its collision with error." 22 Likewise, Habermas assumes that exposure to dissimilar views will benefit the inhabitants of a public...

...who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.' 52. Letter to Voetius (viii-2. 20). 53. Ibid., viii-2. 20; 'I have not yet published a philosophy that...

...who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.^ NOTES 1. "Intellectual freedom is the right of every individual to both seek and receive information...

...expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race. ... If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error." 17 Mill explicitly included science in his claim that there should be "absolute freedom of opinion...

...this claim. Silencing an opinion, he argued, "rob[s] the human race If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error." Mill then asked if the same level of toleration should be applied to actions. He answered that "no...

...who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.48 But a careful reflection on some of Mill's arguments raises serious questions about whether...