the person speaking; to his immediate private sensations. So another person cannot understand the language (Wittgenstein Section 243).
For Wittgenstein, the issue is one of the meaning of sensations and how we express that meaning to others, and he thus begins by asking what we mean when we refer to a sensation. This is something we talk about every day, but do we know what it is we are discussing? More than this, how is the name of the sensation associated with the sensation itself? When I say I feel pain, do you have any real idea how pain appears to me and so what I mean by the word, any more than I would really know how pain feels to you and what you mean by the word? One possibility is that words are connected with the primitive, the natural, expressions of the sensation and are used in their plac
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