Pain fallibility

Call the idea that we are sometimes mistaken about our occurrent pains [italicize] pain fallibility. According to pain fallibility, there is nothing that is plausibly painful about which we are plausibly infallible. While we might assume the truth or falsity of pain's fallibility, direct arguments are thin on the ground. This paper addresses this lacuna and argues for pain fallibility through careful attention to the literature on the philosophy and science of pain, highlighting broad practical implications for addressing pain and theoretical implications for fallibility more generally.