But what you say always sounds as though you wished
to deny the existence of pain as opposed to
that of pain behaviour. But what could it mean to deny the
existence of pain except to deny that people have ever felt
pain; or to deny that it makes sense to say that someone has
pain
? What I do deny is that we can construe
the grammar of ‘having pain’ by
hyposta
sising a private object.
Or: The private object functions all right only as long
as its grammar is
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entirely constructed to suit
the grammar of the common objects in question. & it
becomes an absurdity if its nature is supposed to explain that
grammar.