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And
if
we take this comparison still a bit further, then || , to extend this
comparison, it is clear that the degree to which the sharp
picture
can be similar to || resemble the indistinct one, depends on the degree of indistinctness
in || of the latter.
For suppose you had an indistinct picture and had to
sketch || draw a
“ || ‘corresponding
” || ’
sharp picture.
In the
former || first there is
an indistinct || a blurred red
rectangle; you replace it by a sharp one.
Of course – various
such sha
rp rectangles
might be drawn
which
correspond || to correspond to the
indistinct || blurred one.
–
But if in the original the colours
run || merge into one another without
any || a trace of a
boundary,
then will it not || won't it
be || become || isn't it
then a hopeless task
, to draw a sharp picture
corresponding to the
indistinct || blurred one?
Won't you
then have to
say
, || :
“Here I might just as well draw a circle as a
rectangle, or a heart
shape; all the colours run into one
another
just anyhow. Everything, and nothing, –
is || ; everything's correct, and
nothing's correct.” –
And this is the position in wh
ich
anyone finds
himself, for instance, who searches for definitions in aesthetics or in
ethics || you find yourself if, e.g., in aesthetics
or in ethics you search for definitions which correspond to our
concepts.
Always ask yourself
, in this difficulty:
“How did we
learn the meaning of this
word –
‘
gut || good’,
for instance?
By what examples; in which language games?
”
You will then see m
ore easily that
the word must have a
family of mean
ings.