 There is much that is confused in this dispute between Price and the sentimentalists. Conscious states are properties of the perceiver, and not of the perceived object, but the claim that colors, sounds, and smells are essentially conscious states is not well supported. Nor should the ideas of these properties be classified as sensations, on the model of pleasure and pain. It is noteworthy that, whereas no-one supposes that the sensations of pleasure and pain can be predicated of whatever causes the pain, this is not true of colors, tastes, and sounds. But if it is as absurd to suppose that a body is colored as it is to suppose that what causes us pain is itself in pain, why is the first identification so often made and the second not? There must be some difference between the two cases that explains this tendency, but any such difference casts doubt on the claim that they should be regarded as being equally sensations.