Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact and argument: but facts and arguments, to produce any effect on the mind, must be brought before it. Very few facts are able to tell their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning. Why Freedom Matters - Página 21por Norman Angell - 1919 - 21 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Georgia Warnke - 1993 - 200 páginas
...alone, for, Mill asserts, discussion is necessary to show us how that experience is to be interpreted. "Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact...produce any effect on the mind, must be brought before it."2 Second, even where an opinion does not need to be corrected, unless it is "fully, frequently... | |
| Stephen Holmes - 1995 - 360 páginas
...experience. Not by experience alone. There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact...and argument; but facts and arguments, to produce an effect on the mind, must be brought before it" (Mill, "On Liberty," p. 231). Chapter 6 1. Cass Sunstein,... | |
| Donald R. Kinder, Lynn M. Sanders - 1996 - 403 páginas
...from our previous mistakes: There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact...meaning. The whole strength and value, then, of human judgement, depending on the one property, that it can be set right when it is wrong, reliance can be... | |
| Stephen Lawrence Esquith - 1996 - 388 páginas
...without comments to bring out their meaning. The whole strength and value, then, of human judgement, depending on the one property, that it can be set right when it is wrong, reliance can he placed on it only when the means of setting it right are kept constantly in hand. Mill contended... | |
| Joseph M. Bessette - 1994 - 316 páginas
...for example, the media, state and local officials, interest groups, or the broader public. ARGUMENTS "Very few facts are able to tell their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning."-" Information alone is not enough to determine appropriate courses of action; for it is necessary also... | |
| Jon Elster, Rune Slagstad - 1988 - 372 páginas
...experience. Not by experience alone. There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact...and argument; but facts and arguments, to produce and effect on the mind, must be brought before it" ("On liberty," p. 231). 8. American constitutionalism... | |
| Detlev Gohrbandt - 1998 - 320 páginas
...was Mill fünfundzwanzig Jahre später in On Liberty (1859) schrieb: Very few facts are able to teil their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning. The whole strength and value [...] of human judgement depending on the one property, t hat it can be set right when it is wrong,... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1998 - 476 páginas
...argument runs along the following lines 38: the whole strength and value of human judgement depends on one property, that it can be set right when it is wrong. The foundation of all knowledge is experience and understanding. But the whole history of beliefs testifies... | |
| Kim Fridkin Kahn, Kim Fridkin, Patrick J. Kenney - 1999 - 296 páginas
...in his essay "On Liberty": "There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact...few facts are able to tell their own story, without comment to bring out their meaning." In today's political campaigns, the commentary employed by candidates... | |
| Jules L. Coleman - 1999 - 692 páginas
...effeetive democratic process." Id. at l05. 1i See J. Mill, On Liberty l9-67 (C. Shields ed. l956l. "Wrong opinions and practices gradually yield to fact...any effect on the mind, must be brought before it." Id. at 25. Hence, the "peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion" is that it robs the... | |
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