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... Nothing but Pain & Pleasure, under so many
different disguises aspects, subsisting
in the same manner under the dimensions above
described, in the same manner susceptible in the same manner of
valuation in their causes, entering in the same
manner as elements into a sum of Happiness
or Unhappiness.
There were 2 ways by which this homogeneity
might have been kept in view. The one was,
that I have put and practised here, of noting it once
for all, by a sort of definition give of the several
terms, reforming marking them oft as their relation to the
more simple ideas of pain & or of pleasure was recognized,
in order to get the liberty of naming
any of them of pain or pleasure as the convenience of the
may require:
The other was, that of confining myself to this discarding all those looser expressions
throughout - this would have been more accurate,
& might perhaps have been a more certain preservative against misunderstanding.
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We know A man may have reason to believe that Pain or Pleasure is attendant
upon an action - 1st By his own failings
if upon doing that the act in question he has felt that pleasure
2d By report of others. if they who have done the acts say that pleasure is act upon it. 3dly By observing
the same like countenance voice and gesture
in others upon doing the act in question
which he has found to be observable
in himself upon doing an act from in which he has
felt pleasure. 4. By their doing the act
in question, when no other motive, (that is no pleasure)
can be discover'd to determine them then
supposed to result directly from the act.
Drinking is a pleasure. How do I know it?
I have a palate. I have felt it. Hearing Music
is a pleasure- I have am deaf and have never
felt it- how do am I to know it? because you
say you have felt it, and you tell me it is
one- But you may be little scrupulous about
your word+ +veracity, and you may have an interest
in making me believe that it is a pleasure to
you- Your vanity may be interested in making
INTRODUCTION CH. II Dimensions of Happiness.
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But it would have had this great inconvenience
it would have given to the language in many places a certain
of [metaphysical] stiffness that could not have
failed to have render'd it to the generality of
readers insuperably disgusting.
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