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3 Pleasures and Pains how measured Inf.

The of The quantum of the value of a pleasure
in point of proximity has for it's limit on the side of actual
presence. The pleasure can be nearer, no pleasure can on the score of proximity
be more valuable, than one that is present.

But there is no Pleasures that are actually present are within every day's experience But there is no fixing upon any number
of moments months or years that shall be constitute the
greatest interval which can subsist between any present time, and the time at which the want of a
pleasure's being enjoyed is to take place. The greatest
possible duration of a man's life were it determined
might indeed represent that greatest interval determine the
greatest degree of remoteness of a pleasure as far
as a single person were concerned: but in the first place the greatest
possible duration of a man's life is a quantity that
never can be determined; in the next place & how also it be
it often< <add> as/add> becomes material to consider the pleasure not
of a single person only but of many persons in
succession

The quantum of the value of a pleasure in
point of probability certainty or as it is more as it is more convenient to call it on the present occasion has for its limit on the side
of increase only that absolute certainty which can
not be denied to take place where the pleasure is
actually present. No pleasure can be more
certain than one that is actually present. But there is no
fixing upon any degree of uncertainty number of chances which shall be
the least greatest than can be against the want of any pleasures
taking place.

Now then, whole numbers increase continually
from a fixed point: unity practical numbers decrease continually
from the same fixed point Hence it appears, I
imagine pretty plainly, why the decrease of intensity and duration must be expressed by whole numbers: that of approximity and that of certainty by fractions.

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