Philosophical analysis reveals how pain shapes our understanding of personal experience and perception.
Pain is a great topic for philosophers. Wittgenstein uses the example of "owning" pain ("I cannot have your pains") in his _Philosophical Investigations_. Susan Sontag famously wrote about photographs of atrocities in _Regarding the Pain of Others_.
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