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According to Hutcheson, man has a variety of senses, internal as well as external, reflex as well as direct, the general definition of a sense being " any determination of our minds to receive ideas independently on our will, and to have perceptions of pleasure and pain " ( Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions, sect.

1 ).

He does not attempt to give an exhaustive enumeration of these " senses ," but, in various parts of his works, he specifies, besides the five external senses commonly recognized ( which he hints might be added to ):