The hedonic calculus

Hedonic Calculus considers seven factors:1) Its Intensity 2) Its Duration3) Its certainty or uncertainty 4) Its propinquity or remoteness 5) Its fecundity, or the chance it has of being followed by, sensations of the same kind: that is, pleasures, if it be pleasure pains, if it be a pain6)  Its purity, or the chance it has of not being followed by, sensations of the opposite kind: that is, pains, if it be a pleasure: pleasure, if it be a pain7) Its extent; that is, the number of persons to whom it extends; or (in other words) who are affected by it 

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