If we try to decide whether B in 43) is guided by the signs or
not, we are inclined to give such answers as the following:
a) B is guided if he doesn't just look at an
order, say “
.--” as a whole and
then act, but if he reads it “word by word” (the
words used in our language being
“
.”
“
-”) and acts according
to the words he has read.