All our Ideas, or the materials of our reasoning or judging, are received by some immediate Powers of Perception internal or external, which we may call Senses … Reasoning or Intellect seems to raise no new Species of Ideas, but to discover or discern the Relations of those received.


An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections (1728), Treatise II: Illustrations upon the Moral Sense, Sect. I

Francis Hutcheson Quotes

All our Ideas, or the materials of our reasoning or judging, are received by some immediate Powers of Perception internal or external, which we may...

All our Ideas, or the materials of our reasoning or judging, are received by some immediate Powers of Perception internal or external, which we may...

All our Ideas, or the materials of our reasoning or judging, are received by some immediate Powers of Perception internal or external, which we may...

All our Ideas, or the materials of our reasoning or judging, are received by some immediate Powers of Perception internal or external, which we may...