1. Some statements of the form “I just had a sensation of pain” are true 2. Sensations of pain are mental events 3. Neural processes are physical events 4. “Mental” and “physical” are incompatible predicates 5. No sensation of pain is a neural event 6. There are some nonphysical events Ryleans, and some Wittgensteinians, taking mentality to consist in accessibility to privileged access, and indulging what Strawson calls “a hostility to privacy,” deny (2). Panpsychists have denied (3).22 “Reductive” materialists such as Smart and Armstrong, who offer “topic-neutral” analyses of
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