All our Ideas, or the materials of our reasoning or judging… - Francis Hutcheson

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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.

Francis Hutcheson

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Francis Hutcheson (8 August 1694 – 8 August 1746) was an Irish philosopher.

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Alternative Names: Franciscus Hutchinson • Franciscus Hutcheson • Frances Hutcheson • Franciscus Hutchesonius • Franz Hutcheson

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