Vol. 5, Issue 2, Part C (2019)

Abstract
The use of sensation words, like, for example 'pain' is not learnt, according to Wittenstein, on the basis of because Words are connected. With the primitive private language hypothesis. They are learnt because words are connected with the primitive the natural expressions of the sensation and are used in their place. Sensation Words are used in place of the behaviour that is the natural expression of the sensations; they do not refer to it. The verbal expression of pain replaces crying and moaning; it does not describe them. A child, according to Wittgenstein, does not learn the use of 'pain' on the private language hypo- then in by fixing his attention on a certain sensation and calling it pain. He learns it when he hurts himself and cries and the adults talk to him and teach him exclamations and sentences. They teach the child new pain behaviour. Statements about pain in the first person, Wittgenstein says, are in fact extensions of natural pain behaviour, conventionalized alter- natives to crying and moaning which we are trained to adopt. They are not descriptions of pain but manifestations of it.