Meanings
noun
- pluralplural of happiness
Notwithstanding the temptation to use familiar mathematical or sociopolitical models to explain Mill's elusive notion, the general happiness of a population is neither the sum total or arithmetic average of the several happinesses of individual persons in the population...
1994, Necip Fikri Alican, Mill's Principle of Utility: A Defense of John Stuart Mill's Notorious Proof, page 110
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