ABSTRACT

It may seem impossible to introduce the notion of a feeling that something is going on in our body into our account of such sensations as pain. For what is it that we feel to be going on? On occasion we may be able to describe what feels to be going on in a rough-and-ready way (‘it feels as if they are sticking something into me’). But on other occasions this is impossible. Faced with this difficulty, one is tempted to say that it is the sensation which we feel at the place. And this would make our analysis circular.