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Noun
A quasi-mathematical technique proposed by 19th-century utilitarian ethical theorists for determining the net amount of happiness, pleasure, or utility resulting from an action, sometimes regarded as a precursor of cost-benefit analysis
“And of course there was Bentham with his felicific calculus of pleasure and pain, to say nothing of Jefferson and Franklin.”
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