She took aspirin and her headache went away. Rather than think that she has an unrelated pain in her feet, she makes an unwarranted assumption about its cause. Muddy thinking in an old woman is, of course, humorous.
Old people complain. They just can’t stop. Har-di-har!
More likely, sigh, old people never catch a break! Once one pain is taken care of another pops up.
There’s actually a physical explanation: aspirin works as a blood thinner (which is why doctors advise heart patients to keep a small bottle with them at all times). Thinning the blood can increase the risk of thrombosis in the legs.
I’m inclined to go along with Kilby (and pace Arthur) in saying she’s not terribly wrong, and possibly just correct, in thinking the relief of her headache could be the cause of her foot pain (or anyway somehow causally involved).
The interesting puzzle following on from that, though, is about individuation and identity of mental phenomena. Even granting the causal connection, is she free to say the pain moved? Can we say it was some pain which she felt in her head, then later that pain was what she felt in her feet? Does it matter for those purposes that headache might or might not indefeasibly be descriptively different from somatic pains? Can you have a headache in your foot?
Another medical discovery in the head-foot connection field!
@ Mitch4 – There’s also the theory that you can get rid of headache pain by dropping an anvil on your foot. I’ve never actually tried it, but I believe Wile E. Coyote has some experience with this method.
If she is on her feet all day maybe her feet were always in some sort of pain, it is just she didn’t notice it while she had a headache. Now the headache is gone, the other pains can make themselves known.
@ narmitaj – That’s the “inverted anvil” effect.
“The interesting puzzle following on from that, though, is about individuation and identity of mental phenomena.”
And the interesting follow-on to THAT is the question of whether you or I, or anyone else, can tell her she’s wrong about it. But I’m going to jump aside from that rabbit-hole rather than down it by remembering that she is a fictional character.
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She took aspirin and her headache went away. Rather than think that she has an unrelated pain in her feet, she makes an unwarranted assumption about its cause. Muddy thinking in an old woman is, of course, humorous.
Old people complain. They just can’t stop. Har-di-har!
More likely, sigh, old people never catch a break! Once one pain is taken care of another pops up.
There’s actually a physical explanation: aspirin works as a blood thinner (which is why doctors advise heart patients to keep a small bottle with them at all times). Thinning the blood can increase the risk of thrombosis in the legs.
I’m inclined to go along with Kilby (and pace Arthur) in saying she’s not terribly wrong, and possibly just correct, in thinking the relief of her headache could be the cause of her foot pain (or anyway somehow causally involved).
The interesting puzzle following on from that, though, is about individuation and identity of mental phenomena. Even granting the causal connection, is she free to say the pain moved? Can we say it was some pain which she felt in her head, then later that pain was what she felt in her feet? Does it matter for those purposes that headache might or might not indefeasibly be descriptively different from somatic pains? Can you have a headache in your foot?
Another medical discovery in the head-foot connection field!
@ Mitch4 – There’s also the theory that you can get rid of headache pain by dropping an anvil on your foot. I’ve never actually tried it, but I believe Wile E. Coyote has some experience with this method.
If she is on her feet all day maybe her feet were always in some sort of pain, it is just she didn’t notice it while she had a headache. Now the headache is gone, the other pains can make themselves known.
@ narmitaj – That’s the “inverted anvil” effect.
“The interesting puzzle following on from that, though, is about individuation and identity of mental phenomena.”
And the interesting follow-on to THAT is the question of whether you or I, or anyone else, can tell her she’s wrong about it. But I’m going to jump aside from that rabbit-hole rather than down it by remembering that she is a fictional character.