 Hume shows less interest than Hutcheson does in determining which feature or features of objects result in our finding them beautiful. Hutcheson, it will be recalled, argues that we take the pleasure of beauty in response to all and only objects in which we find uniformity amidst variety. Hume resists any such tidy formula, speaking of multiple principles of taste. The only time he elaborates on any particular principle is in The Treatise, where he holds, contra Hutcheson, that the beauty we find in many objects owes, at least in part, to their usefulness. Hutcheson had denied that the usefulness of an object could play any role in our finding it beautiful, on the grounds that judgments of taste are necessarily disinterested whereas judgments of usefulness are necessarily interested. Against this Hume observes that judgments of taste are necessarily disinterested only in the sense that they are necessarily non-self-interested, and that I might therefore judge a chair to be beautiful on the basis of its being useful to someone, though not on the basis that it is useful to me (Hume 1739–40 [1987, 363–365]).