For David Hume, delicacy of taste is not merely "the ability to detect all the ingredients in a composition", but also the sensitivity "to pains as well as pleasures, which escape the rest of mankind."David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, Literary, Indianapolis: Literary Fund, 1987. Thus, sensory discrimination is linked to capacity for pleasure.
for david hume delicacy of taste is not merely "the ability to detect all the ingredients in a composition" but also the sensitivity "to pains as well as pleasures which escape the rest of mankind"david hume essays moral political literary indianapolis literary fund 1987 thus sensory discrimination is linked to capacity for pleasure