Wittgenstein sobre el fingimiento y las otras mentes

Abstract

This paper presents a suggestion that has not been treated extensively in the critic literature: that the notes that Wittgenstein elaborated on pretense closed the argument started with the rule following considerations. They aim is to strike a last skeptical chance —which Stanley Cavell in his famous The Claim of Reason not considered relevant—: the sense of secret inside the concept of privacy. In other words, it may be that the behavior of the other is a fake: it seems that all the evidence that I have of the other’s mental states, thinks the skeptic, supports both real experience of a mental state (e.g., pain), and experience as a feigned (e.g., feigned pain).