ABSTRACT
To show that a public or community language does not involve the problems that, in his view, undermine the possibility of a genuinely private language, Wittgenstein made numerous claims about social practices and what he called "forms of life." When, for example, he asked "How is the connection between a name and the thing named set up?", he replied:
This question is the same as: how does a human being learn the meaning of the names of sensations? - of the word "pain" for example. Here is one possibility: words are connected with
the primitive, the natural, expressions of the sensation and used in their place. A child has hurt himself and he cries; and then adults talk to him and teach him exclamations and, later, sentences. They teach the child new pain-behavior.14
