In this article, I offer a reading of On Liberty II which focuses on the structural features of the argument that Mill presents. Mill's argument, I suggest, is grounded on an appeal to the value of truth, and is divided into three sub-arguments, treating true, false and partially true opinion respectively. In section 1, I consider what constraints the teleological orientation of Mill's argument places on the case he makes, before examining in section 2 what the division of Mill's argument into three exhaustive sub-arguments tells us about the nature of ‘discussion’ as Mill uses the term. I go on, in section 3, to suggest that although On Liberty II does not offer a defence of free speech in the broad sense in which the term is often now used, we should be optimistic about the chances of finding such a defence in On Liberty III.

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《论自由 II》中的真相、讨论和言论自由

在这篇文章中，我提供了一个阅读论自由II 侧重于 Mill 提出的论点的结构特征。我认为，密尔的论点是基于诉诸真理的价值，并分为三个子论点，分别处理正确、错误和部分正确的意见。在第 1 节中，我考虑了 Mill 论证的目的论取向对他提出的案例的限制，然后在第 2 节中检查 Mill 的论证分为三个详尽的子论证告诉我们关于 Mill 使用的“讨论”的性质术语。在第 3 节中，我继续建议，尽管论自由II 没有为现在经常使用的广义言论自由提供辩护，我们应该对在论自由三、