That animal sentience is inferred on the basis of some likeness to humans is ultimately an intuition.

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• Although none of these behaviours necessarily require sentience, they are often proposed as evidence of animal sentience because of their subjective correlates in humans.claim0.863
  Acknowledgment that the same behaviours are used to infer sentience in animals despite not proving it.
• All attributions of cognition, including sentience, are always inferred on the basis of embodied behaviours, including verbal self-report in humans.claim0.844
  Stronger version: all cognition attributions rely on observable behavior.
• If felt states in humans and other animals are always inferred, why is the same leap from observable behaviour to inferred sentience not afforded to other organisms, including plants?question0.839
  Central question of the commentary; challenges the double standard in attributing sentience.
• Cognitive functions such as sentience are always inferred.claim0.826
  First sentence of the paper, establishing the inferential nature of all sentience attributions.
• all attributions of cognition (i.e., mental actions), including sentience, are always inferred on the basis of embodied behaviours, including verbal self-report in humans.quote0.820
  Critical verbatim statement highlighting the universal inference basis of sentience.
• inference of sentienceconcept0.805
  Attributing subjective experience based on observable embodied behaviours.
• Sentience assessment should seek deep invariants across possible minds, not arbitrary criteria tied to evolution on Earthclaim0.798
  Core normative claim: frameworks must identify fundamental properties of sentience independent of phylogenetic accident or familiar substrates.
• Animal Sentienceconcept0.796
  Peer-reviewed journal on animal cognition and feeling where this commentary and the target paper appear.