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“It surely isn't a game if there is a vagueness in the rules.” – But isn't it then a game? – “Yes || Well, perhaps you will || you'll call it a game, but anyway it isn't a perfect game.” That is || That's to say, it has then || it's lost its purity || it's adulterated || it has then impurities || is then impure, and I am interested in that which has lost its purity || the pure article. But I want to say || But what I want to say is: you misunderstand || you're misunderstanding the role which the ideal plays in your mode of expression || language. You would call it a game too, that is to say, || That is to say || That is, you too would call it a game; only you're blinded || dazzled by the ideal and so || therefore you don't see clearly || clearly see the real application of the word “game”. (It would be similar if you were to say || It is as though you were to say || said, “The perimeter || circumference of this wheel is really dπ; it has been made so exactly” || ” – it's been made that exact.)

(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.