Truth is disputable; not taste: what exists in the nature of things is the standard of our judgement; what has a reference to sentiment or feeling, can have no other standard than the sentiment or feeling itself.
Empiricism, skepticism
Of the Standard of Taste (Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary)
1757
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