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Now there are
various possibilities for
[a|l]anguage game
ˇ◇◇◇ (47),
various cases in which we should say a sign
names
ˇindicates in the game
ˇindicates a square
of such and such
a colour.
We
[sh|w]ould
say this,
, if we
knew that the people who use this language were taught
the how to use of the sign in
such and such a way.
Or if
[t|i]t were laid down in writing, say in the form of a
table, that this elements
corres corresponds to this
si
[ng|gn], and if this table were used in teaching
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teaching the language and were
brought in
[o|t]o decide
certain disputed
points. –
But we
imagine also that
ˇsuch a table
of this
sort is
instrument in the
use ˇpractice of the
language.
The description of a
complex takes place
thus
in this way:
describing
complex carries
table with him, looks up
in it each element
ˇin it of the
complex and passes in the table from the
elem
[t|e]nt to
[h|t]he sign (and the person to
whom the description is given may also
use a table to translate
the words of it ˇthe description
into the sight ˇpictures of
ˇthe coloured squares.)
We might say that
th
[e|is]
table
ˇhere assumes the role
here
is played in other cases by memory and
association.
(We
[sh|w]ould
not
in
general
ly
carry ou
t
order
, “Bring me a red flower”, by looking
up the colour
ˇcalled
‘red
’ in a
and then bringing a flower of
the colour
that we f
[i|o]und in the table; but if
it is ˇit was a question of we have
to select
ing, or
mix
ing,
a
particular shade of red,
then it happen that we we
do make use of a sample or a table.)
If we call such a table the expression of a rule of the language game,
then can say that
what we call a rule of
lan language game can
very different roles in
the game.