 First : The opinion which it is attempted to suppress by authority may possibly be true. Those who desire to suppress it of course deny its truth ; but they are not infallible. They have no authority to decide the question for all mankind, and exclude...  The Southern Review - Σελίδα 51επεξεργασία από - 1867Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Stuart Mill - 1913 - 88 σελίδες
...endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion ; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. First : the opinion which it is attempted to suppress by authority...authority to decide the question for all mankind, and nxclude every other person from the means of judgmg. T refuse a hearing to an opinion, becaus ' they... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1921 - 84 σελίδες
...and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. / First: the opinion which it is at/ tempted to suppress by authority may ( possibly be true. Those who desire to V suppress it, of course deny its truth ; but they are not infallible. They have no authority to decide... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1926 - 88 σελίδες
...atriret: the opinion which it 11 tempted to suppress by authority ma poatqblv be tpiR. Thnsfl who desire" suppress it, of course deny its truth ; but they are...exclude every other person from the means of judging. refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure tliat it is lalse, is to assume that their certainty... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1926 - 84 σελίδες
...authority may J possibly be true. Those who desire to f suppress it, of course deny its truth ; j, but they are not infallible. They have no authority to decide the question for all mankind, and nxclude every other person from the means of judging. To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they... | |
 | Clarence Morris - 1971 - 588 σελίδες
...the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error First: the opinion which it is attempted to suppress by authority...exclude every other person from the means of judging. . . . . . . While every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions... | |
 | John Stuart Mill, Elizabeth Rapaport - 1978 - 150 σελίδες
...endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still. First, die opinion which it is attempted to suppress by authority...are not infallible. They have no authority to decide die question for all mankind and exclude every other person such, I hold that the instigation to it,... | |
 | William E. Conklin - 1979 - 350 σελίδες
...discussion. Mill argued that to silence discussion assumes infallibility on the part of the silencer. "To refuse a hearing to an opinion because they are sure that it is false," Mill argued, "is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty."68 The dominant... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1991 - 380 σελίδες
...body of the text begin with a favorite argument of Mill, which is given as follows (p. 34): lo ". . . the opinion which it is attempted to suppress by authority...refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty." In the margin... | |
 | Sydney Ross - 1991 - 254 σελίδες
...comments on the body of the text begin with a favorite argument of Mill, which is given as follows (34):10 'the opinion which it is attempted to suppress by authority may possibly be true. 9 H. Trevor-Roper, Three Historians-Ill: Lord Macaulay,' The Listener, October 14, 1965, p. 565. Those... | |
 | Alan Haworth - 1998 - 282 σελίδες
...the first of his four 'grounds' for an unlimited liberty of thought and discussion. He writes: First, the opinion which it is attempted to suppress by authority...desire to suppress it, of course, deny its truth; but that they are not infallible. They have no authority to decide the question for all mankind and exclude... | |
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