 | Murray Dry - 2004 - 324 lapas
...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 deprived of dre opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong they lose, what is almost as great a benefit,... | |
 | Ben Mark Rogers - 2004 - 168 lapas
...common objections. (1982:97) To ban Holocaust denial, as in Germany, would make us lose what Mill calls 'the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error' (1982: 76). Open discussion will make us more aware of the historical background and reasons for the... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 lapas
...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... | |
 | Katerina Deligiorgi - 2012 - 262 lapas
...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 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... | |
 | George P. Fletcher, Steve Sheppard - 2005 - 696 lapas
...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,... | |
 | Dany Nobus, Malcolm Quinn - 2005 - 274 lapas
...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;... | |
 | Desmond M. Clarke - 2006
...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...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... | |
 | Office for Intellectual Freedom - 2006 - 554 lapas
...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...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... | |
 | Michael Shermer - 2006 - 224 lapas
...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...impression of truth, produced by its collision with error."1 4. Debate is a chance to educate people about science and evolution. As we have discussed,... | |
 | Eric J. Mitnick - 2006 - 240 lapas
...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...impression of truth produced by its collision with error.32 In this sense, insofar as truth itself should be deemed a social good, the liberal right to... | |
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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... 
