 First, if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility. Secondly, though the silenced opinion be an error, it may, and very commonly does, contain a portion...  Harvard Classics: Volume 25 - Page 256by John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 468 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 500 pages
...cured by the freest discussion, but is ofteq heightened and exacerbated thereby; the truth which ought to have been, but was not, seen, being rejected all...Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not only true, ON LIBERTY 257 but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 508 pages
...cured by the freest discussion, but is often heightened and exacerbated thereby; the truth which ought to have been, but was not, seen, being rejected all...truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that,the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied. Thirdly, even if the received opinion... | |
 | 1909 - 284 pages
...commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by...the received opinion be not only true, but the whole trum; ujnJpsa'iLU siiffprpf) to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1921 - 84 pages
...the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it ii only~by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder...supplied. Thirdly, even if the received opinion be not ftfily true, but the whole truth ; unless it is suffered to be, and actually, is, vigorously and earnestly... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1926 - 84 pages
...portion of truth ; and since the general or prevailmg opinion on any subject is rarely or never the hole truth, it is only by the collision of Adverse opinions...true, but the whole truth ; unless it is suffered tu be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by most of those who receive it,... | |
 | Asa Briggs - 1975 - 368 pages
...blows if they had the worst of the argument. As John Stuart Mill put it in his Essay on Liberty (1859): "It is only by the collision of adverse opinions that...remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied. . . . Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and... | |
 | John Stuart Mill, Elizabeth Rapaport - 1978 - 150 pages
...commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by...the received opinion be not only true, but the whole trudi; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly contested, it will, by... | |
 | Paul K. Feyerabend - 1981 - 372 pages
...commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by...truth has any chance of being supplied'. Thirdly, even a point of view that is wholly true but not contested 'will ... be held in the manner of a prejudice,... | |
 | Robert Stephen Feldman, Robert S. Feldman - 1990 - 400 pages
...Roger T. Johnson, and Karl A. Smith Introduction Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth. it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied. —John Stuart Mill A group... | |
 | Paul Feyerabend - 1987 - 340 pages
...commonly does, contain a portion of truth; and since the general and prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely 'or never the whole truth, it is only by...truth has any chance of being supplied.' Thirdly, a point of view that is wholly true but not contested 'will ... be held in the manner of a prejudice,... | |
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