 When it comes to justifying reasons, Hutcheson believes that one cannot genuinely justify an action without reference to a moral sense. As Hutcheson notes, one cannot justify an action simply by noting that it conforms to a true proposition, as this would justify every possible action (Essay, 144). Furthermore, even if we focus on particular truths that may be said about particular actions (such as, e.g., “a Truth shewing an Action to be fit to attain an End”), these truths do not genuinely justify without some reference to the moral quality of the end itself. But for this we must advert to a moral sense. Simply discerning truths about particular ends will not tell us whether those ends are morally justified: