We teach the child to say “I have been lying” when it has behaved in a certain way. ⌊⌊ˇ Imagine here a typical case of a ly ⌋⌋ 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

verbal expression
word

? ˇIs 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 expr. of shame I meant what you mean by the fac. exp. & the feeling, unless I explicitly distinguish between genuine, &

simulated
faked

fac. 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

besides
but

a particular behaviour. // is a part. behav. & nothing besides. // We just

misunderstand / get
mistake

the function of our

expressions
words

// of language //

by
if we

// : //

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