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Let us imagine a language for which the description which Augustine has given would be correct. The language shall help is to be the means ˇof communication between a bilder builder A to make himself understood by an and his assistant B.

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assistant B. A is constructing a building out of building

blocks
stones

; there

are
is a supply of

cubes, columns, slabs and beams. B has to hand him the buildingstones in the order in which A needs them. For this purpose they use a language consisting of the words: “[C|c]ube”, “column”, “slab”, “beam”. A

calls
shouts

out the words; – B brings the stone that he has learned to bring at this call.

Regard
Take

this as a complete primitive language.

(2015–) Wittgenstein Source Bergen Nachlass Edition (WS-BNE). Edited by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen under the direction of Alois Pichler. In: Wittgenstein Source, curated by Alois Pichler (2009–) and Joseph Wang-Kathrein (2020–). (N) Bergen: WAB.

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