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Now those who maintain that the object of Wish is real good are

beset by this difficulty, that what is wished for by him who

chooses wrongly is not really an object of Wish (because, on

their theory, if it is an object of wish, it must be good, but it

is, in the case supposed, evil). Those who maintain, on the

contrary, that that which impresses the mind with a notion of

good is properly the object of Wish, have to meet this

difficulty, that there is nothing naturally an object of Wish but

to each individual whatever seems good to him; now different

people have different notions, and it may chance contrary ones.