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We may || might say the concept “game” is a concept with hazy || blurred edges. – “But is a hazy || blurred concept a concept at all?” – Is an indistinct || a blurred photograph || photo a picture of a person || man at all? – In fact, can one always replace an indistinct photograph by a distinct one to advantage || is it always desirable to replace an indistinct picture by a sharp one? Isn't what is indistinct || the || an indistinct one often just the thing || what we want?
     Frege compares the concept with || to a district, and says: a district without clear boundaries you could not || cannot call a district at all. That || This means, no doubt || I suppose, we couldn't do anything with it. But is it meaningless to say, “Stay || Stand approximately || roughly here || there”? Imagine I were || was standing || stood with another person in a place and said this. In doing so I shall not draw any || even draw any boundary, but rather make say a pointing movement with my hand, – just as though I || yourself standing in a street with someone and saying this. In saying it you will not even draw any boundary, but just make a pointing gesture – exactly as though you were pointing to || at a particular point || spot. And in just this way || this is how we may explain what a game is. We give || to someone, say, what a game is. We give him examples and want them in a certain sense to be understood || to be understood in a certain way. – But with || by this expression || when I say this I do not mean: that he is supposed || now to see what is common in || in common to all these examples, – || , the common factor being one which, for some reason or other, I could not || was || am unable to express || point out – but I mean that he is now to use these examples in a particular way. Giving examples is not || not here || here not an indirect means || way of explaining, – in || used for want of a better one. – For any || a general explanation can be misunderstood too || as well. || , just as examples can. – That just is || That's how we play the game || the game is played. (I mean the language game with the word “game”.) || (I mean the language game with the word “game”).

(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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