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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAI-PAS |
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PAIN (from Lat. poena, Gr. robin, penalty, that which must be paid: O. Fr. peine) , a term
physical
physical
body
term
antithesis between physical and psychical pleasure can be equally well attested. The investigation of the pleasure-pain phenomena of consciousness has taken a prominent place in psychological and ethical speculation, the terms " hedonics " and " algedonics " (hXynhiov, pain of body
function
element
drawn
instruments
have been devised. The great
throbbing, dull, acute, intermittent, stabbingled to the conclusion among earlier investigators that pains differ in quality. It is, however, generally agreed that all pain is qualitatively the same, though subject to temporal and intensive modification. (See PSYCHOLOGY; AESTHETICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM
SYSTEM
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