Pain, Paradox, and Polysemy

Michelle Liu

doi:10.1093/analys/anaa073

Pain, Paradox, and Polysemy

Michelle Liu

School of Creative Arts

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The paradox of pain refers to the idea that the folk concept of pain is paradoxical, treating pains as simultaneously mental states and bodily states (e.g. Hill 2005, 2017; Borg et al. 2020). By taking a close look at our pain terms, this paper argues that there is no paradox of pain. The air of paradox dissolves once we recognise that pain terms are polysemous and that there are two separate but related concepts of pain rather than one.

Original language	English
Article number	anaa073
Number of pages	16
Journal	Analysis
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anaa073
Publication status	Published - 5 Jul 2021

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