ABSTRACT
One of the major issues in the contemporary philosophy of mind are a specific kind of modal arguments. These arguments are directed against certain psychophysical identifications, namely the identification of our subjective experiences and any possible neural correlate. S. Kripke's argument represents one of the most influential modal arguments against identity theories. His thesis relies on two types of assumptions: Firstly, there is the intuition of their separability and secondly, there seems to be no possible strategy to explain the intuition away. To avoid the mere possibility of any intermediary property Kripke has to presuppose a perfect knowledge about pain, which is immune to empirical investigations. Kripke's argument contains the assumption of the sensation of pain as an essential property of pain.
