 In each case, the rationalist seems to suggest that there are certain actions that, antecedent to our approval of them, or sentiments toward them, have certain qualities, i.e., they are reasonable, fit, true, and so forth. However, Hutcheson believes that all such positions are fundamentally confused. His general line of attack on rationalism is to disambiguate a number of potential readings of rationalism, showing that each is either absurd on its face, or else surreptitiously relies on the existence of a moral sense or sentiment. “But what”, asks Hutcheson, “is this Conformity of Actions to Reason?” (Here he clearly has in mind the view championed by Balguy.) And here he provides two possible answers. 