Item 45 - Letter from R. H. Hutton to Henry Sidgwick

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Asks when Sidgwick reviewed Spencer, and declares that he would like to read the review. Puts forward the claim that he and Spencer mean the same thing by a priori. Discusses the qualities of judgments that are a priori as opposed to those that are not; the perception of a leaf's greenness and a boy's cleverness, are not, in his opinion a priori judgments, whereas the judgment that an action is good or bad is a priori, because he claims to 'fully understand [sic] the action, independently of any comparison of it with other actions of a like kind'.