The doctor does not believe in your pain and your experience of it does not provide any evidence that it exists outside your mind. Inductively, why should the doctor simply not say "There is no God and there is no pain. No vicodin for you. Perhaps you'd like some Seroquel instead".
Many (quite possibly most) doctors do use this very logic, but I very much reject it as it is to close to logical positivism.
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Date: 2006-04-13 08:52 pm (UTC)Many (quite possibly most) doctors do use this very logic, but I very much reject it as it is to close to logical positivism.