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Springs of Action Table Introd
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That Pleasure and Pain (understood always
individual pleasures and individual pains — are
real entities — that consequently the words pleasure and
pain are respectively names of real entities —
no man, it is believed will feel disposed to doubt.
Of their existence the evidence we have is
still more immediate than any that we have of the
existence either of the body mind or of the mind in which
they have respectively their seats.
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Pleasure and Pain
are doubtless real
entities: of their
existence the evidence
is more immediate
than that of bodies
and mind.
Pain and pleasure, together with all sensations
of the or classes (for by this
name may be characterized designated and distinguished all sensations or perceptions
other than those of pain and pleasure) are to us
the only immediately perceptible entities: in comparison of them
not only the mind itself but our own bodies respectively, with the addition of all other bodies
may be considered as belonging to the class of referred to a class distinguished by the appellation of inferential
entities. For sensations alone are the immediate
subjects or objects of experience: it is from them that we infer
the existence of this or that other real entity
or entities in the character of a productors instruments of
causes.
16
Simil
is without
the
only immediately
perceptible entities:
all others are but
inferential.
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