...permitting its refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...faculties have any rational assurance of being right." 23 I will rely on this basic insight of Mill's in the argument for liberty of political culture. However,...

...permitting its refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...faculties have any rational assurance of being right. (Mill, 1970: 145) We have confidence in our ideas only because our views have been challenged, but...

...Mill writes, ' Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very condition that justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of...faculties have any rational assurance of being right. '18 Mill believes that discussion and the facing of objections are the only ways of establishing the...

...permitting its refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...faculties have any rational assurance of being right. 29 The core liberal commitment to freedom of speech, then, flows directly from the requirements of...

...permitting its refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...human faculties have any rational assurance of being right.38 Despite the strongly rationalistic assumption underlying many of Mill's arguments, an assumption...

...gepropageerd door John Stuart Mill: 'Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...faculties have any rational assurance of being right'. Oud, maar geen gemakkelijk idee, immers: '(...) for while every one well knows himself to be fallible,...

...warranted opinions and beliefs: Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...of action; and on no other terms can a being with [necessarily imperfect] human faculties have any rational assurance of being right.42 Unless an individual...

...purpose of not permitting its refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...faculties have any rational assurance of being right." This reply does not appear to me satisfactory. It is not very easy to disentangle the argument on which...

...permitting its refutation. Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opimon is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...being right. When we consider either the history of opimon or the ordinary conduct of human life, to what is it to be ascribed that the one and the other...

...assume yourself infallible. 'Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth...faculties have any rational assurance of being right.' (p. 24) Mill thus assures us that if we do meet the condition, then we are justified in acting on our...