 But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are...  Hearings - 3. lappuseautors: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1970Pilnskats - Par šo grāmatu
 | John Rawls - 2009 - 497 lapas
...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...almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception ... of truth, produced by its collision with error." Of course, Mill has in mind opinion on general... | |
 | Narain Dass Batra - 2008 - 284 lapas
...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...they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clear perception and livelier impression of truth, by its collision with error."28 History teaches... | |
 | J. Thomas Wren - 2007 - 423 lapas
...This was because 'if the opinion is right, they are deprived of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception...impression of truth produced by its collision with error'.131 Even this did not exhaust the possibilities. 'There is a commoner case than either of these',... | |
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