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Wittgenstein challenges whether the same principle can apply to naming ‘pain’. Pain does not involve an object that is external to us, or that we can point at and call pain. We may be able to find a correlation between an output on an fMRI scanner that always corresponds to my feeling of pain. But when we point at the screen and say that is pain, is that what we really mean by ‘pain’?
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Wittgenstein
What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge
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