holding-with

Updated: June 2, 2025

Conscience supposes, indeed, the existence of some such faculty, and properly signifies our consciousness of having acted agreeably or contrary to its directions. The following remark on his views is made by Professor Veitch: 'Ferguson, while holding-with Reid that the notion of Rightness is not resolvable into utility, or to be derived from sympathy or a moral sense, goes a step beyond both.

Alexander Bain - Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics