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| | SEP: Pain |
 | | In apparent contrast to pain, normal exteroception always involves the possibility of misperception, and thus miscategorization (i.e., misapplication of concepts to the objects of exteroception). |
 | | The perceptual act on the part of the perceiving subject, in turn, is analyzed as involving an experience which typically induces conceptual categorization, i.e., application of concepts to the object of perception and its qualities — not to the experience. |
 | | Whatever the fate of sense-datum theories might be as general theories of exteroception, their appeal as a model for understanding pains and other intransitive bodily sensations is very strong. |
| plato.stanford.edu /entries/pain (15660 words) |
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