This is the criteriological view of the development of an understanding of other minds. The criteriological view is summarized by Montgomery as follows: Wittgenstein's argument [is] that the presence of criteria is necessary for teaching the meanings of various mental state terms to children and, also, for then gauging children's correct use of these terms. Children use the criteria to conceptualize the mental state and to infer its presence or absence.

You look like who you say you are / So scoot over, let me drive your car.

Her voice was a hiss, like gas escaping from a bottle of soda.

He faire the knight ſaluted, louting low, / Who faire him quited, as that courteous was[…].