Doesn't the analogy of language with a game throw some || any light here? For we can easily imagine that people might amuse || people amusing themselves in a field || on a lawn || common field by playing with a ball in this way: beginning || such a way that they begin various existing games (with their rules) || existing games, leaving a number of them unfinished ¤ || not finishing some of them, in between whiles throwing the ball at random in the air || up at random,

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chasing and hitting one another || each other in fun with the ball, throwing it at one another etc..– And now someone says that || if someone says: during the whole || someone comes along and says: all the time the || these people are playing a ball game and conform to a definite rule with every throw. || therefore at every point act according to definite rules.
And isn't there also the case in which we play and “make up the rules as we go along”? And also that in which we alter them “as we go along”.

(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.