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Perhaps it would make more sense to you if you substitute "enjoyment".
For my part, I can't find anything in common between certain pairs of physical pains. A sinus headache and a burn are both clearly physical pain but I don't detect a sameness between the way they feel.
That just calls the same nonexistent thing by a different name. Even the verb, "to enjoy" does not label a thing that I am doing or being when I enjoy something.
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but again, drawing a line around the set of things of which some statement is true does not amount to there being a thing that makes that statement true.
For example, the cholera bacterium is the thing that is present in every case of cholera, but sickness is not a thing that is present in every case of sickness.