 First, we might ask a semantic question. Can we take Hutcheson, in expressing his view, to be a proto-non-cognitivist? In other words, is it the case that when people make moral utterances, they are simply expressing their attitudes? Second, we might ask an ontological or metaphysical question. Can we take Hutcheson to regard his moral metaphysics as response-dependent (i.e., that moral properties just are the properties of eliciting certain responses), or is his view compatible (or does it even express) some kind of realism about moral properties?