...Mill (1951: 27) explains in his essay "On Liberty": "There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices...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...

...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...

...discussion and experience. Not by experience alone. There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices...one property, that it can be set right when it is wrong, reliance can be placed on it only when the means of setting it right are kept constantly at...

...discussion and experience. Not by experience alone. There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices...bring out their meaning. The whole strength and value . . . of human judgement. . . [depends] on the one property, that it can be set right when it is wrong,...

...discussion to show how expenence is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices gradually yiald to fact and argument: but facts and arguments, to...must be brought before it. Very few facts are able to tall their own story, without comments to bnng out their meamng. The whole strength and valus, then....

...experience alone. There must be discussion to show how experience is to be interpreted. Wrong opiolons and practices gradually yield to fact and argument;...any effect on the mind. must be brought before it. Yery few facts are able to tell their own story, without comments to bring out their meaolng. The whole...

...discussion and experience. Not by experience alone. There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices...produce any effect on the mind, must be brought before iti Very few facts are able to tell their own story, without comments to bring out their meaning ......

...core intuition is famously expressed by Mill: 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 placed on it only when the means of setting it right are kept constantly at...

...discussion and experience. Not by experience alone. There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices...one property, that it can be set right when it is wrong, reliance can be placed on it only when the means of setting it right are kept constantly at...

...discussion and experience: "Not by experience alone. There must be discussion, to show how experience is to be interpreted. Wrong opinions and practices...any effect on the mind, must be brought before it" (231). He still maintains the validity of our collective human experience and claims that our well-being...