 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 - Страница 38по john stuart mill - 1859Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Noretta Koertge - 2005 - 256 страници
...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. (276) Though they come from the opposite end of the political spectrum, the complaints against science... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 2005 - 190 страници
...contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for the purposes of action; and on no other terms can a being...faculties have any rational assurance of being right. Those who claim to know the truth, but are insensitive to new arguments and evidence, or prevent others... | |
 | Robert E. Goodin, Charles Tilly - 2006 - 942 страници
...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. Note that Mill cites "liberty of contradicting and disproving opinion" as the condition that warrants... | |
 | Margaret Gaskin - 2006 - 472 страници
...Victorian theorist of liberty, 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. CHURCHILL KNEW, none better, that the sanctity of the institutions protecting English liberty had been... | |
 | John Bagnell Bury - 2007 - 286 страници
...Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very condition which justif1es us in assuming its truth for purposes of action, and...faculties have any rational assurance of being right.' (2) If the received opinion which it is sought to protect against the intrusion of error, is true,... | |
 | J. Thomas Wren - 2007 - 423 страници
...contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very condition that justifies us in assuming its truth for the purposes of action; and on no other terms can a being...human faculties have any rational assurance of being right.'133 Mill's second method for deriving right policy in a democracy had more to do with the leadership... | |
 | Albert A. Anderson - 2008 - 356 страници
...disprove our opinion is the very condition that justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action. On no other terms can a being with human faculties have any rational assurance of being right. [2.7] When we consider either the history of opinion or the ordinary conduct of human life, to what... | |
 | Ernest Barker - 1967 - 390 страници
...principal 1 'Complete liberty [for others] of contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.' (Mill's Essay on Liberty, ch. n.) Cromwell's argument, in the Putney debates of the Army, may be found... | |
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