John Stuart Mill Quote

We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that, the received opinion being true, a conflict with the opposite error is essential to a clear apprehension and deep feeling of its truth. But there is a commoner case than either of these; when the conflicting doctrines, instead of being one true and the other false, share the truth between them.


On Liberty by John Stuart Mill (ed. 1867)


We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that, the...

We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that, the...

We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that, the...

We have hitherto considered only two possibilities: that the received opinion may be false, and some other opinion, consequently, true; or that, the...