Adrian Clark

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‘I have a pain in my tooth’ seems to have the same quality as ‘I have a table’, and it tempts us into assuming both say the same kind of thing. You assume that there is something called ‘my pain’ in the same sense that there is ‘a table’. It seems to be saying something, but Wittgenstein believed that it isn’t really saying anything at all:
What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge
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