If introspective reports underdetermine the true nature of pain states, the apparent conceivability of pain without C-fiber firing may reflect epistemic limits, not genuine metaphysical possibility.
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conceivability(Qualified as 'properly circumscribed' to distinguish it from naive or unreflective conceivability)
The ability to coherently imagine or suppose a state of affairs without contradiction
metaphysical possibility(Distinguished from mathematical possibility to argue that some mathematically consistent results are ruled out by the nature of concrete reality)
What is possible in the concrete world, which is a more restrictive domain than mathematical possibility