 Now, this seems to be a direct rejection of his view, expressed in the Essay, that goodness just is the cause or occasion of a “grateful Perception”. Rather, or so it would appear here, Hutcheson seems to be holding that the goodness is a real property of the object, which we feel pleasure upon contemplating, just as beauty is a real property of a particular object, which we feel pleasure upon seeing or appreciating. This clearly tells in favor of an epistemic rather than a constitutive sentimentalism.