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The book addresses central questions of theoretical philosophy, approaching them through the phenomenon of pain: What can be different from what it is, and what cannot? Why can necessity be contingent? What distinguishes enabling from causing? What is the relationship between mind and world? What makes it particularly unique in the case of pain? What is knowledge independent of experience? Why is not everything that is beyond doubt always indubitable? What is decidable, and what is not? Why do we almost never choose to say, "to know that we are in pain"? What metaphysical assumptions underlie the preservation and violation of Grice's conversational maxims of quantity and quality? Why is it almost universally considered an affront to openly doubt a person's statement of being in such a state as pain?.