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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 any Pleasure one <add>if pleasure actual</add>
may be greater than another as will 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 be 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: then — of one of them to the other in these 2 respects
respectively may still be expressed by numbers
as before.
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Pleasur [ ]
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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