...between Hume on sentiment and judgment that really is not alien to his own way of thinking: Taste All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference...that standard. Among a thousand different opinions . . . there is one, and but one, that is just and true; and the only difficulty is to fix and ascertain...

...not exposed to such aberrations; its content and standard are not outside, but within itself. "All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference...conformable to that standard." Among a thousand different judgments concerning the same objective situation, one and one only is correct and true. The only difficulty...

...characteristically goes to the heart of the matter. On the one hand, he says, there is the following view: All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and it is always real, whenever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are...

...does not refer or send us back to anything other than itself, and points towards no exteriority. "All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference...they have a reference to something beyond themselves" (ibid., p. 268), such as the idea of causality which makes us expect the appearance of the effect when...

...view clearly echoing the radical noncognitivist view that we saw Lovibond associating with Hare: All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference...reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real marter of fact. . . . Among a thousand different opinions which different men may entertain of the...

...'sentiment', which is so fundamental for Hume? He writes: All determinations of the understanding . . . have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact. (p. 230) Hume is here talking about what philosophers nowadays call a "belief" or a "cognitive state":...

...to that which Hume puts into the mouth of his sceptic in die 'Essay on die Standard of Taste': All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference...is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. ... [A] thousand different sentiments, excited by the same object, are all right: Because no sentiment...

...understanding oddly resembles Aristotle's epistemological distinction between rhetoric and dialectic: All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference...nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever one is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have...

...subjective pleasure that it yields. Judgements will be based upon what Hume calls 'sentiments', and '[all] sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, whenever a man is conscious of it' (Hume 1996: 136). This is to say that if the worth of a work of...

...of pleasure. Although Hume begins his exposition of the paradox of taste with the remark that "All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference...is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it" (ST, p. 234), it is clear that he does not accept any maxim like Bentham's "pushpin as good as poetry."...