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Mill's Puzzling Footnote

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2009

Jonathan Dancy
Affiliation:
University of Reading, [email protected]

Abstract

This paper discusses various possible interpretations of a complex footnote in Mill's Utilitarianism.

Type
Discussions
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2000

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References

1 This is ch. 2. para 19, p. 65 in Mill, J. S., Utilitarianism, ed. Crisp, R., Oxford, 1998Google Scholar.

2 Quoted in Prior's, A. N. ‘The Runabout Inference Ticket’, in Strawson, P. F., ed., Philosophical Logic, Oxford, 1967, p. 130Google Scholar. For comments and discussion, I am grateful to Roger Crisp and John Skorupski.