Or, that the pain is the bearer of the name?
     It is the substantive ‘pain’ which puzzles us. This substantive seems to produce an illusion. What would things look like if we expressed pains by moaning & holding the painful spot?
     Or that we utter the word pain pointing to a spot.
     “But that the point is that we should
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say ‘pain’ when there really is pain.”
     But how am I to know if there really is pain? if what I feel really is pain? Or, if I really have a feeling?‒ ‒ ‒


(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.



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