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What about the colour-samples that A shows to B, – do they belong to the language? As you like. They don't belong to

our spoken
the verbal

language; but if I say to someone, “Pronounce the word

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the word ‘

the
that

‘”, you will count call the second “the” also as part [f|o]f the sentence. Yet it plays a very similar role to that of a coloured

bit of paper
square

in ˇthe language game ([9|11]): it is a sam[le|pl]e of what the other person is supposed to say, just as the coloured square is a sample of what B is supposed to bring.
It is the most natural thing and it causes the least confusion if we

count
reckon

the samples among the instruments of the 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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