“I don't just
say
‘I've got
toothache || [a
feeling]’, but
toothache || [a
feeling] makes me say this.”
(I deliberately didn't write ‘the
feeling of toothache’, or ‘a certain
feeling
’.)
This sentence distinguishes between,
say, saying it as an example of a sentence, or on the stage
etc., & saying it as an assertion.
But it is no explanation of the expression
“I have toothache”, of the use
of the word “toothache”.