The Character of Mind

Abstract

p. 8 There has often been a tendency to suppose that bodily sensations are purely 'inner' or subjective states of mind. While in the case of perception a distinction is drawn between an experience and what it is of, it is suggested that no such distinction can be drawn for a sensation such as pain. On this view, an experience of pain is not of anything, in the way that a visual experience of a red ball is of a ball.