Lexicon of Arguments

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I 167
A certain sensation (pain) could not have existed without being a sensation.
>Pain/Kripke.
Pain: it is a mistake to think that a pain S and a brain condition B could exist independently.
>Identity theory/Kripke.
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Rorty I 93
Kripke/Rorty: same epistemic situation: even in the absence of heat you can be in the same epistemic situation that you can feel the heat sensation.
Pain: in the case of pain and other mental phenomena this is not possible. Being in the same epidemic situation that would exist if there was a pain means to be in pain.
I 174
Heat: although "heat" is a rigid designator, the reference is determined with respect to an accidental property.
>Rigidity/Kripke, >Reference/Kripke.
Pain: pain is a rigid designator whose reference is determined by an essential property of the reference (LewisVs).
>Essence/Kripke.

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