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    The Greatest-Happiness Principle is a mere form of words ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Impartiality is constitutive of the Utility principle, not merely a supplement to it

    The Greatest-Happiness Principle is a mere form of words without rational signification unless one person's happiness, supposed equal in degree, is counted for exactly as much as another's

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    Equal in degree(comparing the strength of different people's happiness)
    The same in amount or intensity; here it means one person's happiness is just as strong or intense as another person's.
    Greatest-Happiness Principle(as the main subject of this quote)
    The idea that the right action is whatever creates the most happiness for the most people; it's a major theory in ethics that says we should aim to maximize overall well-being.
    Rational signification(describing whether a principle is meaningful and defensible)
    Having a clear, logical meaning that actually makes sense and can be understood through reason.

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    It [impartiality] is involved in the very meaning of Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle. That principle is a mere form of words without rational signification, unless one person’s happiness, supposed equal in degree (with the proper allowance made for kind), is counted for exactly as much as another’s. Those conditions being supplied, Bentham’s dictum ‘everybody to count for one, nobody for more than one,’ might be written under the principle of utility as an explanatory commentary. Th

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