The conclusion just given wears a certain air of absurdity to the view of Common Sense; because its show of exactness is grotesquely incongruous with our consciousness of the inevitable inexactness of all such calculations in actual practice.
On the whole, it must, I think, be admitted that the Hedonistic method cannot be freed frominexactness and uncertainty by appealing to the judgments of common sense respecting the sources of happiness.
Herbert Spencer no doubt talked of the unknown and unknowable, but not in this sense as an element of inexactness running through all things.
As the number of units taken diminishes, the amount of variety and inexactness of generalization increases, because individuality tells for more and more.
As the number of units taken diminishes, the amount of variety and inexactness of generalisation increases, because individuality tells more and more.
Herbert Spencer no doubt talked of the unknown and the unknowable, but not in this sense, as an element of inexactness running through all things.
But more correct measurements showed that these figures were not quite exact, and the fraction of inexactness killed the theory.
This is a broad manifestation of evolution, but it is not quite an accurate statement, and its inexactnessstill more strongly confirms the theory of evolution.
In all our operations upon these data, we are liable to mistakes of calculation, but no error can arise from inexactness of data.
Still, for our present purpose, an important consequence of the inexactness is clear.
