The aim of this paper is to understand whether Theory-Theory of mind (TTom) can be considered the one and only source of our understanding of others or not.
i support the idea that TTom cannot have such a role and that it can be played only by basic empathy - a sui generis perception.
in this paper, i challenge TTom as basic, i then consider the notion of “empathy” and i provide a very narrow de nition of low-level empathy, that I compare to Scheler’s account on affective phenomena.