13.
Now
[W|w]hat do the words of this language
denote? –
How can this show itself –
[w|W]hat they denote –
except
ˇhow is this to appear, unless in the way they are used? And this
is what we have described. The expression, “this
word denotes
that ˇso
& so” would
have then to
be ˇnow become a part of this
description. Or: the description
be put in the
form: “The word … denotes
…”.
Now
one can
it certainly
ˇis possible to condense
shorten the description of the
use of the word “
slab”
into saying
in
this way, and say |
that
this word denotes this object.
Th
[at|is]
is what one would do
, for instance, if the
question
was were simply ˇ, for
instance, to prevent the misunderstanding
of
thinking that the word “slab” referred to
the kind of
block
which
building stone that |
we actually call
ˇa
“cube”,
the
ˇparticular sort of
“reference”
,
i.e.
all the rest of the game with
everything else about the
use of |
these
wor
ds,
familiar.
Similarly one might say that the signs
“a”, “b”,
“c”, etc. denote
numbers
, when if this
ˇis
to remove
s the misunderstanding
of thinking that “a”,
“b”
[b|,]
“c”, play the role in
language which
actually is
7
is played by
“cube”, “column”,
“slab”. And one can say also that
“c” denotes this number and not that, –
when this is to explain, say, that the letters are to be used in
the order “a”, “b”,
“c”, “d”
etc., and not “a”,
“b”, “d”,
“c”.
But
because you by
assimilat
[e|ing] in this way
the
description
ˇs
of the use
s of
these words to one
another, their use
s
do
esn't
more
similar
[:| .] For
, as we
have seen, their use
s is
are of widely
different sorts.