Pain is often used as the paradigmatic example of a phenomenal kind with a phenomenal quality common and unique to its instantiations. Philosophers have intensely discussed the relation between the subjective feeling, which unites pains and distinguishes them from other experiences, and the phenomenal properties of sensory, affective, and evaluative character along which pains typically vary. At the center of this discussion is the question whether the phenomenal properties prove necessary and/or sufficient for pain. In the empirical literature, sensory, affective, and evaluative properties have played a decisive role in the investigation of psychophysical correspondence and clinical diagnostics. This paper addresses the outlined philosophical and empirical issues from a new perspective by constructing a multidimensional phenomenal space for pain. First, the paper will construe the phenomenal properties of pains in terms of a property space whose structure reflects phenomenal similarities and dissimilarities by means of spatial distance. Second, philosophical debates on necessary and sufficient properties are reconsidered in terms of whether there is a phenomenal space formed of dimensions along which all and only pains vary. It is concluded that there is no space of this kind and, thus, that pain constitutes a primitive phenomenal kind that cannot be analyzed entirely in terms of its varying phenomenal properties. Third, the paper addresses the utility of continued reference to pain and its phenomenal properties in philosophical and scientific discourses. It is argued that numerous insights into the phenomenal structure of pain can be gained that have thus far received insufficient attention.

疼痛经常被用作一种现象类型的范例，具有其实例化所共有和独特的惊人质量。哲学家们激烈地讨论了主观感觉与疼痛之间的关系，主观感觉将痛苦统一起来并将其与其他经历区分开来，并且其感觉，情感和评价特征的显着特性通常随疼痛而变化。讨论的中心是以下问题：是否证明这种现象对疼痛是必要的和/或足够的。在经验文献中，感觉，情感和评估属性在心理物理对应和临床诊断研究中起着决定性作用。本文通过构建一个新的视角，以新的视角解决了概述的哲学和经验问题。多维的巨大痛苦空间。首先，本文将通过属性空间来解释痛苦的现象性，该属性空间的结构通过空间距离反映出现象的异同。第二，关于是否存在必要的和足够的性质的哲学辩论被重新考虑，即是否存在一个由尺寸构成的显着空间，沿着该空间所有的和唯一的痛苦都在变化。结论是，没有这种空间，因此，疼痛构成了一种原始的现象类型，就其变化的现象性质而言，无法完全进行分析。第三，本文探讨了实用程序在哲学和科学话语中继续提及疼痛及其现象特性。有人认为，迄今为止，对疼痛的现象结构的大量见解得到了足够的重视。