ABSTRACT
Are all likes and dislikes sentiments? No—sentiments are centred upon, directed upon, objects. But we acquire likes and dislikes for particular kinds of activity, and these are properly called tastes. We say that we like or love cards 1 or golf or skating, or we say that we dislike or hate such activities. The words love and hate so used are perhaps inappropriate; they involve a childish over-statement or misstatement which perpetuates a confusion between sentiments and tastes, a confusion which I am here concerned to resolve. In this confusion we have one of the principal grounds of the persistence of the false doctrine known as psychological hedonism.
