might
may

say the concept “game” is a concept with

blurred
hazy

edges. – “But is a

blurred
hazy

concept a concept at all?” – Is an indistinct blurred photograph a picture of a

man
person

at all? – In fact, can one always is it always ˇdesirable to replace an indistinct photograph picture by a distinct sharp one to advantage? Isn't what is an the indistinct ˇone often just

what
the thing

we want?
Frege compares the concept

to
with

a district, and says: a district without clear boundaries you could cannot call a district at all. Th[at|is] means,

I suppose
no doubt

, we couldn't do anything with it. But is it meaningless to say, “

Stand
Stay

roughly
approximately

there”? Imagine I were was standing stood yourself standing ˇ in a street with another person in a place someone ◇◇◇ and sa[id|ying] this. In doing so saying it I shall you will not draw any even draw any boundary, but rather just make say a pointing movement with my hand, gesture – just exactly as though I you were pointing

at
to

a particu[,|l]ar

spot
point

. And

this is how
in just this way

we may explain ˇto someone, say, what a game is. We give ˇhim examples and want them in a certain sense to be understoodˇ in a certain way. – But with b[h|y] this expression when I say this I do not mean: that he is

now
supposed

to see what is ˇin comm[l|o]n in ˇto all these examples, – ˇ, the common factor being one which, for some reason or other, I could not ˇ

am
was

unable to

point out
express

ˇ – but ˇI mean that he is now to use these examples in a particular way. Giving examples is ˇhere not ◇◇◇ an indirect

way
means

of explaining, – in ˇused for want of a better one. – For any general explanation can be misunderstood too ˇ as well. , ˇjust as examples can. – That's just is how we play the gameˇ is played. (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.