 | Richard Whately - 1834 - 482 páginas
...specimen of that introduction of accidental circumstances which I have been describing, may be found, I think, in the language of a great number of writers,...men dive for them because they fetch a high price."* * Pol. Econ. Lect. IX. p. 251—253. BOOK III. OF FALLACIES. Introduction. Definition of BY a Fallacy... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1840 - 508 páginas
...specimen of that introduction of accidental circumstances which I have been describing, may be found, I think, in the language of a great number of writers,...men dive for them because they fetch a high price."* * Pol. Econ. Lect. IX. p. 25 1—253. BOOK III. OF FALLACIES. Introduction. BY a Fallacy is commonly... | |
 | Richard Whately (abp. of Dublin.) - 1848 - 490 páginas
...would be of precisely the same value as now. In this, as in many other points in Political Economy, men are prone to confound cause and effect. It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men dive for them ; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price." * * Pol. Econ.... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1852 - 500 páginas
...would be of precisely the same value as now. In this, as in many other points in Political Economy, men are prone to confound cause and effect. It is...men dive for them because they fetch a high price." * • PoL Econ. Lect. IX. pp. 251—263. BOOK III. OF FALLACIES. Introduction. ALTHOUGH sundry instances... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1855 - 396 páginas
...respecting Wealth and Value; who have usually made Labour an essential ingredient in their definitions. 2 Now it is true, it so happens, by the appointment...men dive for them because they fetch a high price. i I remember once hearing, in conversation, many years ago, a definition given (and it was received... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1855 - 406 páginas
...men are prone to confound cause and effect. It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men hare dived for them; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price."* BOOK II . OF FALLACIES. Introduction. ALTHOUGH sundry instances of Fallacies have been from time to... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1856 - 462 páginas
...a pearl an article of wealth, even though a man should chance to meet with it in eating an oyster. It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men...men dive for them because they fetch a high price. i There are two different applications of the word 'Experience,' which, when not carefully distinguished,... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1856 - 460 páginas
...a pearl an article of wealth, even though a man should chance to meet with it in eating an oyster. It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men...for them ; but, on the contrary, men dive for them bedause they fetch a high price. There are two different applications of the word 'Expericnce,' which,... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1857 - 304 páginas
...would be of precisely the same value as now. In this, as in many other points in Political Economy, men are prone to confound cause and effect. It is...contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price."60 . '. «• Pol. Econ. Lect. IX. pji. 251— 253, BOOK III. OF FALLACIES. Introduction. ALTHOUGH... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1871 - 504 páginas
...precisely the same value as now. In this, as in many other points in Political Economy, men are prono to confound cause and effect. It is not that pearls...men dive for them because they fetch a high price." * • POL Bran. fjen. IX. pp. ^51-253. HI/OR in. OF FALLACIES. Introduction. ALTHOUGH sundry instances... | |
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If the aerolites which occasionally fall, were diamonds and pearls, and if these articles could be obtained in no other way, but were casually picked up, to the same amount as is now obtained by digging and diving, they would be of precisely the same... 
