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 l
ie.
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
: