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7 How to measure
money that produces it: money is therefore the
measure of that this pleasure: But that pleasure is
equal to the other pleasure, is equal to this: the
other pleasure thereof is as the money that produces
this: therefore money is also the measure
of that other pleasure. It is the same between
pleasure pain and pain; as also between pain
and pleasure.
The use of a common measure A common measure necessary to enable men to annex the same ideas in point of quantity to the same words is to enable
the person who speaks to communicate to
to any one he is speaking to the same idea
of the quantity of any thing he is speaking
of as he himself conceives. A common measure
must therefore be some instrument the
name of which suggests upon being mentioned
to both parties an idea of the same quantity.
If I say You tell me St Paul's is bigger
than the Pantheon: I agree with you that it is
so. This agreement does not hinder our ideas
of the proportion of those two bodies from being
very different. You may think St Pauls as ten
times as big again as the other building: I may think
it not more than half as big again: But if
You now tell me that St Paul's contains two million
of cubic feet; and the Pantheon but half a million.
If I agree with you in this our ideas
of the bigness of the respective buildings are now the
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