ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on some observations from the final years of Ludwig Wittgenstein's life, as collected in the Last Writings on the Philosophy of Psychology, II. It stresses that continuity, both as regards Wittgenstein's method and results. The chapter provides an interpretation of Wittgenstein's remarks, focuses on pretence. The connection between pretence and pain is, as it were, one more step removed than in the case of the connection between the pain-Äusserung and pain. In developmental terms: first comes the natural expression of pain, then talk of being in pain, and only then talk of pretence. The substantive issues expresses to do with the inner, that ancient metaphysical conception alive in contemporary thought as qualia, consciousness, direct experience and like notions. Part of the attack focuses on pretence; the main goal of the chapter is to provide an interpretation of Wittgenstein's remarks on that subject, or some of them.
