"Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant— so that he constantly called different things by that name— but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of —pain'— in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism"

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