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Now there are
various possibilities for
our || the
language game
◇◇◇ (
57),
various cases in which we should say a sign
names in the game || in
the game indicates || indicates in the game a square
of such and such
a colour.
We
should || would
say this,
for
instance || e.g., if we
knew that the people who use this language were taught
the use of the sign in such
and such a way || in such and such a way how to use the
sign.
Or if
it were laid down in writing, say in the form of a
table, that this element
corresponds to this
si
gn, and if this table were used in teaching
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¤ the language and were
brought in
to decide
certain disputed
points. –
But we
could || can
imagine also || also
imagine that
a table of this sort || such a table is
a regular || an instrument in the
use || practice of the
language.
The description of a
complex takes place
thus
in this way:
Whoever
is || The person describing
the || a complex carries
a || the table with him, looks up
in it each element of the complex || each
element in it and passes in the table from the
elem
ent to
the sign (and the person to
whom the description is given may also use a table to translate
the words of
it || the description
into the
sight || pictures of
the coloured squares.)
We might say that
the || this
table
assumes the role here || here assumes the
role that || which
is played in other
cases || in other cases is played by memory and
association.
(We
should || would
not
generally || in general
carry out
the || an
order
, “Bring me a red flower”, by looking
up the colour
called
‘red
’ in a
colour
table || colour-atlas and then bringing a flower of
the colour
that we f
ound in the table; but if
it is || was a
question of selecting or mixing || we have to select, or mix,
a particular shade of red,
then it does
sometimes || may happen that we || we
do make use of a sample or a table.)
If we call such a table the expression of a rule of the language game,
then one || we can say that
what we call a rule of
the || a
language game can
have || play very different roles in
the game.