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Pleasure is one of the two "feelings" in Epicurean philosophy, the other of which is pain. All feelings are considered to be either pleasure or pain. For further discussion see the Lexicon on Pleasure.
To be added, with links to existing articles, especially the Diogenes Laertius comment to this effect.
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