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In this paper, I present my solutions to two closely related questions about pleasure. One of these questions is fairly well known. Quite a few philosophers have discussed it, and the literature contains many proposed answers. The second question seems to me to be at least as interesting as the first, but it apparently hasn’t interested quite so many philosophers. I know of only a few proposed answers.
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Feldman, F. (1988). Two Questions about Pleasure. In: Austin, D.F. (eds) Philosophical Analysis. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 39. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2909-8_5
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