In ([6|7]5) I said of the

usage
application

of the word “game” that it is not

‘
“

limited
bounded

at every point by rules

’
”

; but what does a game look like

which
that

is bounded at every point b[h|y] rules? Whose The rules ˇof which don't let no in any doubt penetrate;, stop ˇup all the holes for it? – Can't we

imagine
think of

a rule which regulates the application of

a
the

rules? ; and a doubt which that rule removes, – and so forth?
But th[at|is]

doesn't mean
is not to say

that we ˇare in doubt

–
, –

because we can imagine a doubt. I can well imagine that someone is always in doubt before he opens the door of his house ˇas to whether a chasm may not have opened on the other side of it; and that he makes certain

of it
about it

before he steps through the door (and ˇone day it may sometime prove that he was right); but I am not, therefore, ˇmyself in doubt in a similar case. myself.

(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.