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Happss. and Unhappss: their Dimensions. Value of a Pain or Pleasure. (3
Thus much concerning a 8. Pleasure considered at the time of it's being
present: but a pleasure may be distant. When distant it is either
past or future. When past, there is an end of it: we have nothing more
so do with it. We have no occasion to concern ourselves about it. When
future, it then is the object of our concern; it concerns us to know it's value.
Certainty. The perception of a Pleasure is an event may be consider'd as <add>9: coming under the catalogue of Events.</add>. An event that is yet to come,
may be at a the highest degree of certainty or at any lower: when at the highest
degree, it is said simply to be certain: when at any lower, it is said at a high degree,
to be contingent. but not the highest, probable: when at a low degree, improbable: when at any degree short of the highest, probable or improbable, it is said to be contingent.
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Proximity. Certain or Contingent, the period of it's arrival may be more or less remote.
The non-arrival of a Pleasure an Event before a certain given time may be certain,
and it's arrival at that time be certain; or else it's non-arrivals at all times before
may be certain, and it's arrival were even then contingent. The time when the chance for its arrival commences. That given time may be more
or less remote. Hence with respect to all pleasures not actually present, whether, as well certain as well as contingent,
they be certain or only contingent we have to speak of their Proximity.
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Presence Presence may be consider'd as constituting the highest degree as well of certainty as of proximity 11.
Value of a Pleasure present. The Value of a Pleasure present, which is 11* or of which the proximity and is as it's magnitude. certainty are otherwise given, <add>so is as its magnitude.</add>
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The Value of a Pleasure of a given magnitude not present but certain
is as it's proximity. — certain.
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— of a given — proximity. The Value of a Pleasure , of which the magnitude and proximity
are given, is as it's certainty.
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i=e of one Pleasure taken singly. The value therefore of a pleasure in a single person and standing —
singly, that is apart from every any other sensation, <add>from every other pleasure and from every <add>pain</add></add> of the same person, is
composed as it were of four ingredients: It's two dimensions, the two
Happss: and Unhappss: their Dimensions. Value of a Pain or Pleasure.
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