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The Perfect Actor Objection

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The perfect actor objection: behavior and mind can come apart—a flawless actor shows pain behavior without pain; a stoic hides pain without behavior.

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Putnam's super-Spartans suppress every wince and complaint by training. On behaviorism's definition, their pain vanishes. It plainly does not.

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