ABSTRACT
There is one special case where ‘the place of the pain’ may seem to mean nothing but ‘the place of the bodily cause of the pain’. The question therefore arises how correlations are made between the sensation and ‘the place of the sensation’. Clearly they will have to be discovered very early in life, because quite young children can point to the place where it hurts or itches. Success in stopping the pain still further reinforces the association between pain and a particular place. So there is no insuperable problem for this causal theory of the location of bodily sensations in explaining how the people come to locate the place of the supposed cause of the sensation. Sensation and the cause of sensation must be two distinct things, and it would be an inexplicable idiom that talks of the supposed place of the cause of a thing as if it were the place of the thing itself.
