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It is sometimes said || said sometimes: animals don't speak, because they haven't || lack the necessary intellectual capacities. And this means: ‘they don't think, therefore they don't speak’. But the fact is that they just don't speak. Or better || rather: they don't use language. (If we disregard || except the most primitive forms of language.) Commanding || Giving orders, asking questions, recounting || describing, prattling, belong to our natural history just as walking, eating, drinking, playing do. (It makes no difference here whether the speaking is done with the mouth or done with the hand.)

(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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