On the location of a pain
What such inferences reveal, Noordhof claims, is only that 'there is a sense of "in" that is used to describe the state of an object' (97). This being so, the invalidity of the former inference cannot be used to motivate the Representational approach to pain (Tye 1995, 2000). Noordhof's claim is opaque. One way to read him is as supposing that talk of holes in things is best understood in terms of talk of the things being in the state of being holed (or perforated). However, quantification over holes is unavoidable in ordinary discourse putatively about holes.1 Another way to read Noordhof is as claiming that talk of holes in things is to be understood in terms of talk of the things being in the state of having