We teach the child to say “I have been lying” when it has behaved in a certain way. Imagine here a typical case of a lie. Also this expression goes along with a
particular situation, facial expressions, say of shame, tones of reproach etc.
     But doesn't the child know that it is lying before ever I teach him the word || verbal expression? Is this meant to be a metaphysical question or a question about facts? It doesn't know it as words. And why should it know it at all? – “But do you assume that it has only the facial expression of shame, e.g., without the feeling of shame? Mustn't you describe the inside situation as well as the outside one?” – But what if I said that by facial expression of shame I meant what you mean by the facial expression & the feeling, unless I explicitly distinguish between genuine, & faked || simulated facial expressions? It is, I think, misleading to describe the genuine expression as a sum of the expression & something else, though it is just as misleading to say that the genuine expression is nothing but || besides a particular behaviour. || is a particular behaviour & nothing besides. We just mistake || misunderstand / get the function of our words || expressions of language if we || by :