::“ It is truly a whimsical supposition that, if mankind were agreed in considering utility to be the test of morality, they would remain without any agreement as to what is useful, and would take no measures for having their notions on the subject taught to the young, and enforced by law and opinion … to consider the rules of morality as improvable, is one thing ; to pass over the intermediate generalisations entirely, and endeavour to test each individual action directly by the first principle, is another … The proposition that happiness is the end and aim of morality, does not mean that no road ought to be laid down to that goal … Nobody argues that the art of navigation is not founded on astronomy, because sailors cannot wait to calculate the Nautical Almanack.

He said, “ If we accept the proposition that one person can be sacrificed for the happiness of the many, it will soon be demonstrated that two or three or more could also be sacrificed for the happiness of the many.

`` Exterminatin' cow thieves is just a business proposition with me '', he'd blandly announce.

The hypothesis ventured here is that it does, and that evidence is accumulating validating that proposition.

But still, the proposition is worth examination.

It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.

The contribution of this paper is a demonstration of this proposition, and an exploration of some of its implications.

Or, he might remind Fromm that the 41 per cent figure is really astonishingly low: after all, the medieval guild system was dedicated to the proposition that 100 per cent of the workers ought to turn out only the average amount ; ;

The point is that in a system such as Fromm's which recognizes unconscious motivations, and which rests on certain ethical absolutes, empirical data can be used to support whatever proposition the writer is urging at the moment.

Because of the first proposition, God himself is thought as invisible and only recognizable in his creation.

For example, eliminating dependence on the electrical grid is relatively simple but growing all necessary food is a more demanding and time-consuming proposition.

* Binary betting, a bet on a proposition which is quoted as a spread bet

Bidding is based on the premise that the lowest contract available to bidders starts with the proposition to take seven tricks, i. e. one cannot contract to make less than seven tricks.

* For the frequentist a hypothesis is a proposition ( which must be either true or false ), so that the frequentist probability of a hypothesis is either one or zero.

The basic idea of his proof is that a proposition that holds of x if x = n for some natural number n can be called a definition for n, and that the set

For instance, the English declarative sentence " snow is white " refers to the same proposition as the equivalent French declarative sentence " la neige est blanche "; two sentences, one proposition.

Unlike the other proposition bets which are handled by the dealers or stickman, the field bet is placed directly by the player.

A conjecture is a proposition that is unproven.

In mathematics, a conjecture is an unproven proposition that appears correct.

" There can be found no fact that is true or existent, or any true proposition ," he wrote, " without there being a sufficient reason for its being so and not otherwise, although we cannot know these reasons in most cases.

In the end, he said: `` I'm not enchanted by the proposition, sir.

In the end, Akzo decided the process was not a viable commercial proposition, and shut down their research at the end of 1994.

A scientifically minded physicalist may, following Andrew Melnyk, accept the first horn of the dilemma ; that is, a physicalist could live with the idea that the current definition of physicalism may very likely end up being false as long as he believes the proposition is more plausible than any currently formulated rival proposition, such as dualism.

Newton wrote at the end of Book 2 ( in the < span class =" plainlinks "> Scholium to proposition 53 </ span >) his conclusion that the hypothesis of vortices was completely at odds with the astronomical phenomena, and served not so much to explain as to confuse them.

Each variant interpretation and complementary explanation is derived from Thorstein Veblen ’ s original sociologic proposition, that conspicuous consumption was a psychological end in itself, from which the practitioner ( man, woman, family ) derived the honour of superior social status.

At the end of the Second World War, Braun approached the allies to reinstate the previous democratic Prussian government, but they were not receptive to his proposition due to their earlier decision to abolish the state of Prussia and divide East Prussia between Poland and the Soviet Union.

Determined to impeach Johnston for neglect of his duties by the end of 1927, the Legislative leaders met in special session under a newly adopted initiative proposition.

The Frogs is not often thus labeled, however – Dover points out that though Kleophon was adamantly opposed to any peace which did not come of victory, and the last lines of the play suggest Athens ought to look for a less stubborn end to the war, Aeschylus ’ advice ( 1463-5 ) lays out a plan to win and not a proposition of capitulation.

She was such a keen player, as were so many members of English high society by the end of 1674, that the Lower House of Parliament proposed to pass an Act against the playing of Ombre, or at least to limit the stakes at 5 pounds, a proposition received as " ridiculous " at that time.

A simple proof of the irrationality of √ 2 is indicated by Aristotle, and it is set out in the proposition interpolated at the end of Euclid's Book X, which suggests that the proof was certainly ancient.

Jonathan Dollimore writes that Scruton's Sexual Desire ( 1986 ) based a conservative sexual ethic on the Hegelian proposition that " the final end of every rational being is the building of the self ," which involves recognizing the other as an end in itself.

By the end of the sessions, the band felt as though they were a still a strong musical proposition even after the loss of Kath.

Hegel's " one, some, and all " proposition follows the basic geographical metaphor Hegel takes throughout his philosophy of history, namely, " World history travels from east to west ; for Europe is the absolute end of history, just as Asia is the beginning.

; Fifth proposition: Only the end justifies the means, nothing else.

Some writers say that towards the end his reign, Kulottunga lost the province of Gangavadi to Hoysala Vishnuvardhana who attacked this major Chola province ( c. 1116 CE ) in Kannada country from the times of and defeated the Chola Viceroy Adigaiman, the controller of Kongu and Kannada country there, but this proposition seems to stand on very fragile ground considering the massive power of chola empire during the period and its domination of Asia during Kulothunga's time.

Bopearachchi has supported this proposition by pointing at the similarity between the portraits and the identical treatment of the diadem ( one end straight, one end crooked ).

The song appears toward the end of a sketch named Live Organ Transplants where the ' surgeon ', upon failing to proposition Mrs. Brown for her liver in the kitchen, abruptly opens the refrigerator door to a man wearing a pink tuxedo who accompanies her through space singing about the universe.

In around 1800 Jean-Jacques Boisard has the cricket answering the ant's criticism of his enjoyment of life with the philosophical proposition that since we must all die in the end, Hoarding is folly, enjoyment is wise.

In the end, the Court's common law analysis supported the proposition that a police officer could arrest any person for a misdemeanor committed in his or her presence.

The aim is to justify the proposition.

Nevertheless, the Balladur Committee has not retained this proposition and does not advocate the disappearance of the departments, but simply " favors the voluntary grouping of departments ," which it suggests also for the regions, with the aim of bringing the number of the latter down to fifteen.

Although the aim of RHH's ( Restore Hetch Hetchy ) is to remove the dam and drain Hetch Hetchy, they feel that using the word " drain " will turn the vote against their proposition ( PropF ).

The aim of the merger was to strengthen the two weakened giants and thus make the company a more attractive proposition for potential buyers on the run up to privatisation.