 ... its truth; but they are not infallible. They have no authority to decide the question for all mankind and exclude every other person from the means of judging. To refuse a hearing to an opinion because they are sure that it is false is to assume that...  liberty - Page 34by john stuart mill - 1859Full view - About this book
 | 1859 - 782 pages
...thought or expression, so soon as he proceeds to develop it. "All silencing of discussion," he says, " is -an assumption of infallibility. Its condemnation...common argument, not the worse for being common." We suppose the syllogism is meant to stand thus :— All assumption of infallibility is to be condemned.... | |
 | Graduated series - 1861 - 504 pages
...because they are sure it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption...is far from carrying the weight in their practical government which is always allowed to it in theory, for while every one well knows himself to be fallible,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Political Science - 1863 - 232 pages
...All \ silencing of discussion is an assumption of v infallibility. Its condemnation may be allow.* ed to rest on this common argument, not the worse for...mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from. carryirfg the weight in their practical judgment, which is always allowed to it in theory ; / " ""... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1865 - 118 pages
...false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing oí* discussion is an assumption of infallibility. Its...allowed to it in theory ; for while every one well knOTS himself to he fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility,... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1878 - 98 pages
...itis false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencingr of discussion is an assumption of infallibility. Its...which is always allowed to it in theory ; for while evenone well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - American essays - 1867 - 538 pages
...because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption...common argument, not the worse for being common.' True, it is not the worse for being common ; nor is it the better for being weak. Indeed, there is... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Liberty - 1895 - 404 pages
...because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption...being common. Unfortunately for the good sense of man. Kind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgment,... | |
 | Censorship - 1909 - 284 pages
...because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption...in theory; for, while every one well knows himself "[The general intolerance manifested itself soon after Mr. Mill had written. Statues came into existence... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 488 pages
...because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the san.« thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption...this common argument, not the worse for being common. Unfortunatel, for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the... | |
 | Harrison Ross Steeves, Frank Humphrey Ristine - Literary Collections - 1913 - 556 pages
...because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption...Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of thei1 fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgment, which is always allowed... | |
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