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One can
easily also imagine a language
also in which B, in reply to a
question by A,
informs him of ˇhas
to report to him the number of slabs or
cubes
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cubes
◇◇◇ ˇstacked up in some place; or
the colours
of
building-
stonesblocks. that lie in one
pla[v|c]e and
another.
The purport of such a report might then be:
“five slabs.”. Such a report might
:
“five slabs.”. Now what is
the difference between the report
, or
assertionch, “five slabs.”, and
the command “five slabs!”? –
the role which
these words plays in
language
game
s.
But
ˇprobably the tone o
[v|f]
vioce in which they are uttered will
probably be different
, and the
facial
expression and various other things. But
it may well be
we
can also imagine |
that
the tone of voice is the same
ˇin both cases – for a
command and a report
be uttered in
different tones of voice and with
a lot of
different
various |
facial expressions – and
that
the difference
ˇmay lie
s
ˇonly in
the application alone what is
done with the words “five
slabs”. – (Of course we might
also use the words “assertion” and
“command”
ˇjust to indicate a grammatical
of a
sentence
or and a
word ˇparticular
intonation, just as one
ˇwould
call
s
the sentence
, “Isn't it glorious
weather today?”, a question
,
even although it is used
like as an
assertion.) We could imagine a language in which
all assertions had the form and the intonation of a
rhetorical question; or
ˇin which every command
ˇhad the form: “Would you like to
?”.
One
perhaps say
ˇ in this case:
“What he says has the form of a question but
ˇit is really a command”,
i.e. has the
function of a
command
in the practical employment of
language. .
(Similarly one says “you will do
that ˇso &
so” not as a prophecy but as a
command. What
ˇwould
make
s it
the one
and , what the
other?)