The Polysemy View of Pain
Liu, Michelle
(2023)
The Polysemy View of Pain.
Mind & Language, 38 (1).
pp. 198-217.
ISSN 0268-1064
Philosophers disagree about what the folk concept of pain is. This aricle criticises existing theories of the folk concept of pain, that is, the mental view, the bodily view, and the recently proposed polyeidic view. It puts forward an alternative proposal—the polysemy view—according to which pain terms like “sore”, “ache” and “hurt” are polysemous, where one sense refers to a mental state and another a bodily state, and the type of polysemy at issue reflects two distinct but related concepts of pain. Implications with respect to issues in philosophy of pain are also drawn.
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Additional information | © 2021 The Author. Mind & Language published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords | submitted article, submitted articles, folk concept of pain, pain, polyeidic view of pain, polysemy, philosophy, language and linguistics, linguistics and language |
Date Deposited | 15 May 2025 14:38 |
Last Modified | 31 May 2025 00:29 |