But couldn't we imagine some kind of perversity in a child which made it say red when it saw green & v& v& & at the

same time this not being discovered because it happened to see red ˇin those cases when we say green? But if here we talk of perversity we

might
could

also assume that we all were perverse. For how are we or B ever to find out that he is perverse?
The idea is, that he finds out (& we do) when later on he lerns how the word ‘perverse’ is used &

then
now

he remembers that he was that way all along.
Imagine this case: The child looks at the lights: sais the name of then right colour to himself in an asside & then loud the wrong word. It chuckles while doing so. This is, one may say, a rudimentary form of cheating. One might even say: “This child is going to be a liar”. But if it had not said the asside but only imagined itself pointing to one colour on the chart & then said the wrong word, – was this cheating too?
Can a child cheat like a banker without the knowledge of the banker?

(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.