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A Pleasure. what. And now we are enabled to determine ascertain what
it is we mean when we speak of a
pleasure: what it is that constitutes the is the constituent of
identity of in pleasures: wh how much it is
of the sum total of our sensations during throughout
life that goes to the constituting of an individual
pleasure: tis the identity of the
cause. *13 *13 A The cause is an instrument in action: the action of an instrument the cause of a plesure is the instrument of it in action.
14.
Instance Eating Food is the instrument, eating is the cause of a certain pleasure.
I eat, and in so doing I feel a pleasure:
how much of the sum total of my sensations
goes to the making of that pleasure? as
much as is spent during passes while I am is occupied by my the act of eating [ next go to No 18.]
15.
Magnitude in as ple person With respect The Product of the intensity and duration
of a pleasure, may be termed its magnitude.
16.
Lot of Happiness What in a single person makes a pleasure,
in a state may be said to
make a lot of Happiness.
17.
The Magni In a state The product of the intensity and duration
of a lot of happiness
Magnitude in a State. The Magnitude of a lot of happiness in a
state is the product of the it's intensity and
duration of it in each person, multiplied by
the number of persons who perceive it.
18.
Value of a cause of Pleasure present The Value of an instrument or a cause of pleasure, is
as the value magnitude value of the pleasure of which
is it's effect, if it's produce effect be pleasure and
nothing else.
19.
Value of a Pleasure present. The value of a present pleasure can be no other consider'd as present
than it's magnitude. and without regard to any other sensation that
may stand connected with it+ + by unity [identity] of cause by having the same
cause, can be no other than it's magnitude.
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