 The materialist basis of Addison’s theory disposes it to a relativism and so to an anti-realism with respect to the perfections of taste, much as the intellectualist basis of the theories of Shaftesbury and Reid disposes them to an absolutism and so to a realism. Because the pleasures of taste are pleasures taken merely in the visual representation of material objects, there is no reason to think any creature capable of visual representation incapable of such pleasures. But there is also no reason to think all creatures capable of such pleasures capable of all the same pleasures from all the same objects. Indeed there is every reason to think that