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The value ratio of any things whereof one is greater than
another may be expressed in numbers : at
the least to such exactness as shall answer equally
well with absolute truth in practise.
Now every one will allow that if any one pleasure
may be greater than another one well in
respect of duration as of intensity : and of
pleasures possible or expectative any one may be gr more
likely to happen - than another , that is may
be more probably have be greater <add>in probability</add> , and may also be to happen
sooner, whenever it does happen if it happens at all, that is , may
be greater in proximity .
Now then take 2 pleasures , either of the
same man , or of 2 different men, no
matter which; and for the sake of distincguishing
one from the other , call one A,
the other B.
First suppose let there be both actual: and let the
intensity of A be to that of B - as 2 is to 21 : but the duration
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of A , to the duration of B, only as 1
is to 2. Now then to know the magnitude
of each, that is (they being both actual) their
value, take the pleasure intensity of A,
that is 2 and multiply it by the di duration of A,
that is 1 , the product is 2. Take also Do the
the intensity of same by the intensity and duration of of
B , the product is also 2 ; therefore
the magnit values of A and B - are equal.
Again , suppose them both possible.
and let the value of their intensities and durations being
as before , let the possibl probability of it be to
that of B as 4 to 3 , but the proximity
only as 3 to 4.
We have therefore the intensity of A equal to 2 Now then is this case to know the value of each:
It's duration — — — — —— — 1
It's probability — — — — — — ——— 4
It's proximity — — — — — —— — 3
The product of 1 2 of these multiplied by
the 3d and of that by the 4th is 24 .
The value of A is therefore 24.
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In the same manner it will turn out that
the value of B . is also 24 . Their values
therefore in this case also are equal.
It in the one either certain actual or only
certain and not actual; and the other either
not actual or not certain , or remote as to the manner
of comparison it makes no difference
they may be compared as if they both were
only possible : one being still greater than
another in respect of probability , or
certainty , or both: their — of one of them to the other in these 2 respects
respectively may still be expressed by numbers
as before.
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1 Leasur [ ]
What stuff would you have it made of ? would you
have a faggot without sticks , or pounds without
shillings in them or pence?
The Happiness of the moral enthusiast , is the Irishman's
which was to be all of Quinics.
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[ ] I might here cry out, as so many others
have done before me , that Riches are no
means to Happiness +++, that the pleasures of the
body [+] are stark naught , that Happiness
consists in a certain virtue , which itself consists
in self-denial ,
INRODUCT. CH. II Dimensions of Happiness: Note. [BR.][8.][ Method of affirmating a lot of Happiness exemplified.
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